The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 10
‘The two evenings my wife gave me something to drink, but I don’t know whether it was a sleepy posset or not.’
Who acts: two evenings, I, voice · What happens: give, drink, not know, be · To what, where: something, me, sleepy posset · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two evenings, I, voice), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 evenings | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 evenings | nummod |
| 4 | evenings | evening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 evenings | nmod |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | iobj |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 gave | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 drink | mark |
| 11 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 something | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 know | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gave | conj |
| 18 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 23 posset | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 posset | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 posset | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 posset | det |
| 22 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 posset | amod |
| 23 | posset | posset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | ccomp |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 not | cc |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 posset | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the two evenings my wife | something | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme | |||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | the two evenings my wife not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | voice | a sleepy posset | tree rules |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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