The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 142
‘That horrid little animal and his mistress are drinking our health in sea-water now.
Who acts: horrid little animal · What happens: drink · To what, where: health, sea water
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horrid little animal), 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 | _ | 10 drinking | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 animal | det |
| 3 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animal | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animal | amod |
| 5 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drinking | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mistress | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 animal | conj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 drinking | aux |
| 10 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 health | nmod:poss |
| 12 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drinking | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 water | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 sea | punct |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drinking | obl |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 drinking | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 drinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | present · progressive | that horrid little animal and nurse's mistress | our health | sea water | now | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=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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