The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 53

‘A can of fresh milk, then,’ said the students; ‘but it must not be skim.’

Who acts: fresh milk, milk · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: students · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fresh milk, milk), 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	_	11 said	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 milk	det
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 milk	aux
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 milk	case
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 milk	amod
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 milk	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 said	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 then	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 students	det
13	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 skim	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 skim	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 skim	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 skim	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 skim	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 skim	cop
21	skim	skim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 skim	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 skim	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a fresh milk	the students			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent student=Topic
2	not is	must	milk					skim 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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