The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 105

‘Here is a pitcher of milk; drink some, for you must be thirsty I am sure; but pray save a little for me, as I am dying of hunger and thirst.’

Who acts: pitcher, you, I · What happens: be, drink, pray, save, die · To what, where: some, little

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 (pitcher, you, I), 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	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 save	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pitcher	det
5	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 milk	case
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pitcher	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 drink	punct
9	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Here	conj
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 drink	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sure	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 thirsty	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 thirsty	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 thirsty	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 thirsty	cop
16	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sure	advcl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 sure	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sure	cop
19	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 drink	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 pray	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 pray	cc
22	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	parataxis
23	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 little	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 save	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 save	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dying	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 dying	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 dying	nsubj
31	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 dying	aux
32	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 save	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 hunger	case
34	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dying	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 thirst	cc
36	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hunger	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 save	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a pitcher of milk		here property	tree rules
2	drink	infinitive	a pitcher of milk not said here	some		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
3	is	must	you		thirsty property	tree rules
4	is	present	I		sure property	tree rules
5	pray	present				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	save	present		a little	for me	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent little=Theme for i=Beneficiary
7	die	present · progressive	I		of hunger and thirst	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer

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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