The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 23

‘Who drinks of me will be a wolf! who drinks of me will be a wolf!’

Who acts: wolf · What happens: drink, be · To what, where: wolf

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 (wolf), 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 wolf	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 wolf	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 wolf	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wolf	nsubj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 wolf	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 wolf	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 wolf	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 wolf	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wolf	det
18	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 wolf	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 wolf	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drink	present	a wolf		of me	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of i=Source
2	is a	future		a wolf		tree rules
3	drink	present	a wolf		of me	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of i=Source
4	is a	future	a wolf	a wolf		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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