The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 24

Thou hast nothing else to do but go and draw water out of the fountain, and when a certain poor woman asks you to let her drink, to give it to her very civilly.”

Who acts: Thou, certain poor woman, woman · What happens: have, do, go, draw, ask, let · To what, where: nothing, water, fountain, you, woman, civilly

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, certain poor woman, woman), 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	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 hast	nsubj
2	hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 hast	obj
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 nothing	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 go	cc
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 do	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 draw	cc
10	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 draw	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 fountain	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 fountain	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fountain	det
15	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 draw	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 asks	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 woman	det
20	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asks	nsubj
23	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 let	advcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 asks	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 let	mark
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 hast	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	31 give	mark
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 drink	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 civilly	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 civilly	nmod:poss
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 civilly	advmod
36	civilly	civilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 give	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hast	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 hast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	Thou	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	Thou not said here	nothing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	infinitive	Thou not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	draw	infinitive	Thou not said here	water		the fountain	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme out fountain=Initial_Location
5	ask speech: ask	present	a certain poor woman		you		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	let	to-infinitive	Thou not said here	woman			tree rules
7	drink	infinitive	woman not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	give	to-infinitive	woman not said here	water	woman's civilly		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to civilly=Recipient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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