The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 20

‘What will you drink, Maurice?’ says Paddy.

Who acts: you, Paddy · What happens: drink, say · To what, where: Maurice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Paddy), 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	_	5 drink	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 drink	obj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 drink	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 drink	nsubj
5	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Maurice	punct
7	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 drink	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 drink	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 drink	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Paddy	Paddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	future	you	Maurice					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Paddy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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