The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 45

They brought me a second hogshead, which I drank, and made signs for more; but they had none to give me.

Who acts: legs, second hogshead, none · What happens: bring, drink, make, have, give · To what, where: second hogshead, me, signs, none

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 (legs, second hogshead, none), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 brought	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hogshead	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 hogshead	amod
6	hogshead	hogshead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drank	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 drank	nsubj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 drank	nsubj
10	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hogshead	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 drank	conj
14	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 more	case
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 made	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brought	conj
21	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	20 had	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	xcomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bring	past	legs = leg	a second hogshead	me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination hogshead=Theme
2	drink	past	a second hogshead				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	a second hogshead not said here	signs		for more	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent sign=Product for more=Asset
4	have	past	legs = leg	none			tree rules
5	give	to-infinitive	none not said here		me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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