The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 8

Says she, ‘Did you drink any sleepy posset either of these evenings before you went to bed?’

Who acts: woman, you · What happens: say, drink, go · To what, where: sleepy posset, bed · 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 (woman, 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	Says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drink	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 drink	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 drink	punct
5	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drink	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 drink	nsubj
7	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Says	ccomp
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 posset	det
9	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 posset	amod
10	posset	posset	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drink	obj
11	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	10 posset	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 evenings	case
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 evenings	det
14	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 either	nmod
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 went	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drink	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 bed	case
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Says	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drink	past · do-support	woman	any sleepy posset either		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent posset=Patient
3	go	past	you		bed	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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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