The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 27

Now I need not tell any gentleman or lady that if he or she was to drink an honest bottle of whisky at one pull, it is not at all the same thing as drinking a bottle of water; and in the whole course of my life I never knew more than five men who could do so without being the worse.

Who acts: I, Paddy, bottle, five men · What happens: not tell, be, not be, drink, not know, do · To what, where: gentleman, one pull, same thing, bottle, five men · 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, Paddy, bottle, five men), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tell	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 gentleman	det
7	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 lady	cc
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gentleman	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 drink	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 drink	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 or	nsubj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 if	fixed
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 drink	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 drink	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 drink	mark
17	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	advcl
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bottle	det
19	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bottle	amod
20	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drink	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 whisky	case
22	whisky	whisky	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bottle	nmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 pull	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 pull	nummod
25	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drink	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thing	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thing	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 thing	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 thing	advmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	34 thing	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 thing	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 thing	det
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 thing	amod
34	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	parataxis
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 drinking	mark
36	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 thing	advcl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 bottle	det
38	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drinking	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 water	case
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bottle	nmod
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 and	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 course	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 course	det
45	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 course	amod
46	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 and	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 life	case
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 life	nmod:poss
49	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 course	nmod
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 knew	nsubj
51	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	52 knew	advmod
52	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 life	acl:relcl
53	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	55 five	advmod
54	than	than	ADP	_	53 more	fixed
55	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 men	nummod
56	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 knew	obj
57	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 do	nsubj
58	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 do	aux
59	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 men	acl:relcl
60	so	so	ADV	_	59 do	advmod
61	without	without	SCONJ	_	64 worse	mark
62	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	64 worse	cop
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 worse	det
64	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	59 do	advcl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	present	I		any gentleman or lady		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gentleman=Recipient
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Paddy			one pull		drink property	tree rules
3	not is	present	bottle			all same thing			tree rules
4	drink	gerund	bottle not said here	a bottle of water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient
5	not know	past	I	five men					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
6	do	could	five men						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	gerund	five men not said here					bad property	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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