The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 26

‘By the holy frost, then!’ says Paddy, ‘’tis but cold comfort there’s in that bottle now; and ‘tis your word we must take for the strength of the whisky, for you’ve left us no sample to judge by’; and to be sure Maurice had not.

Who acts: Paddy, we, you, Maurice, your · What happens: say, tis, take, have, leave, judge · To what, where: word, sample, us · 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 (Paddy, we, you, Maurice), 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	_	10 says	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	5 frost	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 frost	det
4	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frost	amod
5	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 frost	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 says	advmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 then	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 says	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	_	14 tis	punct
13	‘’	‘'	PUNCT	_	14 tis	punct
14	tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ’s	nsubj
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 comfort	cc
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 comfort	amod
17	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tis	conj
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 comfort	advmod
19	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 bottle	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 bottle	det
22	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ’s	obl
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 ’s	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 tis	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tis	cc
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 tis	punct
27	tis	tis	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 word	nmod:poss
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tis	obj
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 take	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 take	aux
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 word	acl:relcl
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 strength	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 strength	det
35	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 take	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 whisky	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 whisky	det
38	whisky	whisky	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 strength	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 ’ve	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 ’ve	mark
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 ’ve	nsubj
42	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 tis	parataxis
43	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 ’ve	advcl
44	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 left	iobj
45	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	46 sample	det
46	sample	sample	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 left	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 judge	mark
48	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 sample	acl
49	by	by	ADP	_	48 judge	obl
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	48 judge	punct
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 sure	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 sure	cc
53	to	to	PART	_	55 sure	mark
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 sure	cop
55	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 says	conj
56	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 had	nsubj
57	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 sure	ccomp
58	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 had	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Paddy			then	by the holy frost	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tis	infinitive		your word				tree rules
3	take	must	we	your word not said here			for the strength of the whisky	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent word=Theme for strength=Beneficiary
4	have	present	you					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	leave	participle	you not said here	no sample	us			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent we=Theme sample=Attribute
6	judge	to-infinitive	you not said here	no sample not said here				vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
7	is	to-infinitive	Paddy not said here				sure property	tree rules
8	not have	past	Maurice					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	word		your					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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