The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 93
‘I am thirsty, give me a drink from the well that is yonder.’
Who acts: I, well · What happens: be, give · To what, where: drink, me, well
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, well), 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 | _ | 4 thirsty | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thirsty | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thirsty | cop |
| 4 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thirsty | parataxis |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 drink | det |
| 9 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 well | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 well | det |
| 12 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 yonder | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 yonder | cop |
| 15 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 12 well | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thirsty | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 thirsty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | a drink | me | the well | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient drink=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | the well | yonder 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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