The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 21

‘I’m no ways particular,’ says Maurice; ‘I drink anything, barring raw water; but if it’s all the same to you, Mister Dorman, may be you wouldn’t lend me the loan of a glass of whisky.’

Who acts: I, Maurice, you · What happens: be, say, drink, bar, not be, loan · To what, where: ways, anything, raw water, me, glass · 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 (I, Maurice, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 ’m	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ’m	nsubj
3	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 ways	det
5	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ’m	obj
6	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ’m	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ’m	conj
10	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 drink	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 drink	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 drink	nsubj
14	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 says	conj
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 drink	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 barring	punct
17	barring	bar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 drink	advcl
18	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 water	amod
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 barring	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 lend	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 lend	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 ’s	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ’s	nsubj
24	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 lend	advcl
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 same	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 same	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ’s	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 same	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Mister	punct
31	Mister	Mister	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 ’s	obl
32	Dorman	Dorman	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Mister	flat
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ’s	punct
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 lend	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 lend	cop
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 lend	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 lend	aux
38	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 lend	advmod
39	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ’m	conj
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 lend	iobj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 loan	det
42	loan	loan	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lend	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 glass	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 glass	det
45	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 loan	nmod
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 whisky	case
47	whisky	whisky	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 glass	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ’m	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 ’m	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	be	present	I	no ways		particular property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot way=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	Maurice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	drink	present	I	anything			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
4	bar	gerund	I not said here	raw water			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer water=Theme
5	not is	would	you		me	lend property	tree rules
6	loan			a glass of whisky			nom loan «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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