The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 20
Brother was dreadfully thirsty, but he did not drink.
Who acts: Brother · What happens: be, not drink
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 (Brother), 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 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thirsty | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thirsty | cop |
| 3 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 4 thirsty | advmod |
| 4 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drink | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 drink | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drink | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drink | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 drink | advmod |
| 10 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thirsty | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thirsty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Brother | dreadfully, thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not drink | past · do-support | Brother | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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