The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 53
With your own father’s daughter I’d be sure to agree, But to drink the salt water Wouldn’t do so with me!
Who acts: I, salt water · What happens: be, agree, drink, not do · 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, salt water), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 6 daughter | case |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 father | amod |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 father | case |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sure | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sure | nsubj |
| 8 | ’d | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sure | cop |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sure | cop |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 agree | mark |
| 12 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sure | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drink | punct |
| 14 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 drink | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 drink | mark |
| 16 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 agree | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 18 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 water | compound |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | nsubj |
| 20 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 21 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 do | advmod |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 drink | ccomp |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 do | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 do | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | with your own father's daughter; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | drink not said to happen | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not do | would | the salt water | with me | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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