The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 67
“Drink this liquor,” said she; “it is the Water of the Fountain of Lions, and a sovereign remedy against all fevers whatsoever.
Who acts: cloth, liquor · What happens: drink, say, be · To what, where: liquor, Water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloth, liquor), 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 | _ | 2 Drink | punct |
| 2 | Drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 liquor | det |
| 4 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Drink | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Drink | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Drink | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 Water | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Water | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Water | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Water | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Water | det |
| 14 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Fountain | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fountain | det |
| 17 | Fountain | Fountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Water | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Lions | case |
| 19 | Lions | Lion | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 Fountain | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 remedy | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 remedy | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 remedy | det |
| 23 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 remedy | compound |
| 24 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Water | conj |
| 25 | against | against | ADP | _ | 27 fevers | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 fevers | det |
| 27 | fevers | fever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 remedy | nmod |
| 28 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 27 fevers | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink in a quote | infinitive | this liquor | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liquor=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | cloth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | liquor | the Water and a sovereign remedy against all fevers | of the Fountain of Lions | 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 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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