The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 18
‘Who drinks of me will be a tiger! who drinks of me will be a tiger!’
Who acts: tiger · What happens: drink, be · To what, where: tiger
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 (tiger), 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 drinks | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 drinks | nsubj |
| 3 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tiger | csubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 drinks | obl |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 tiger | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tiger | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tiger | det |
| 9 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tiger | nsubj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 tiger | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 drinks | nsubj |
| 12 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tiger | acl:relcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 drinks | obl |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 tiger | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tiger | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tiger | det |
| 18 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 tiger | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 tiger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | present | a tiger | of me | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of i=Source | ||||
| 2 | is a | future | a tiger | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drink | present | a tiger | of me | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of i=Source | ||||
| 4 | is a | future | a tiger | a tiger | 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 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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