The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 103
Take this pitcher of milk and drink it up, and whatever you do, don’t leave a drop for Fanfaronade.’
Who acts: you · What happens: take, drink up, do, not leave · To what, where: pitcher, drop
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 pitcher | det |
| 3 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 milk | case |
| 5 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pitcher | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drink | cc |
| 7 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drink | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 drink | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whatever | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 whatever | cc |
| 12 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Take | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 leave | punct |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 leave | aux |
| 17 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 leave | advmod |
| 18 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 drop | det |
| 20 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Fanfaronade | case |
| 22 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this pitcher of milk | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink up | infinitive | you not said here | pitcher | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not leave | infinitive · do-support | a drop | for Fanfaronade | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent drop=Theme for fanfaronade=Recipient |
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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