The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 44

I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint.

Who acts: I, top · What happens: drink off, do, not hold · To what, where: top, draught, pint

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, top), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 drank	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 draught	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 draught	det
7	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drank	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 do	obj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 do	advmod
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 draught	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hold	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 hold	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hold	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hold	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 hold	advmod
19	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drank	parataxis
20	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	22 pint	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pint	det
22	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hold	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drink off	past	I	top	a draught		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	do	might	I	a draught		well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
3	not hold	past · do-support	top	half pint			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pint=Theme

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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