The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 108
When I ask for it you must put food and water into my mouth.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: ask, put · To what, where: food, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 ask | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | obl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 put | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | aux |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | ccomp |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 water | cc |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 food | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 mouth | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | I | for drink | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put | must | you | food and water | my mouth | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent food=Goal |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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