The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 12
‘I’m so thirsty, sister; if I did but know where to find a little stream, I’d go and have a drink.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, know, find, have, go · To what, where: sister, little stream, drink · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 thirsty | advmod |
| 5 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’m | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sister | punct |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’m | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 did | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ’m | conj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 find | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 know | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stream | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stream | amod |
| 19 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ’d | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 ’d | nsubj |
| 22 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | conj |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 ’d | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 have | cc |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 drink | det |
| 27 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | I | sister | thirsty property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | past · do-support | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | a little stream | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | I not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | have | infinitive | I not said here | a drink | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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