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The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 106

But he seized the pitcher and drank all it contained at a single draught, and then broke it to atoms on the nearest stone, saying with a malicious smile: ‘As you have not eaten anything you cannot be thirsty.’

Who acts: thought, pitcher, you · What happens: seize, drink, contain, break, say, not eat · To what, where: pitcher, single draught, nearest stone, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (thought, pitcher, 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

ccnsubjdetobjccconjadvmodnsubjadvclcasedetamodoblpunctccadvmodconjobjcaseoblcasedetamodoblpunctadvclcasedetamodoblpunctpunctmarknsubjauxadvmodparataxisobjnsubjauxadvmodcopconjpunctpunctrootButCCONJhePRONseizedVERBtheDETpitcherNOUNandCCONJdrankVERBallADVitPRONcontainedVERBatADPaDETsingleADJdraughtNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVbrokeVERBitPRONtoADPatomsNOUNonADPtheDETnearestADJstoneNOUN,PUNCTsayingVERBwithADPaDETmaliciousADJsmileNOUN:PUNCT‘PUNCTAsSCONJyouPRONhaveAUXnotPARTeatenVERBanythingPRONyouPRONcanAUXnotPARTbeAUXthirstyADJ.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_3 seizedcc
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 seizednsubj
3seizedseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 pitcherdet
5pitcherpitcherNOUNNumber=Sing3 seizedobj
6andandCCONJ_7 drankcc
7drankdrinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 seizedconj
8allallADV_10 containedadvmod
9ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 containednsubj
10containedcontainVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 drankadvcl
11atatADP_14 draughtcase
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 draughtdet
13singlesingleADJDegree=Pos14 draughtamod
14draughtdraughtNOUNNumber=Sing10 containedobl
15,,PUNCT_18 brokepunct
16andandCCONJ_18 brokecc
17thenthenADVPronType=Dem18 brokeadvmod
18brokebreakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 seizedconj
19ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 brokeobj
20totoADP_21 atomscase
21atomsatomNOUNNumber=Plur18 brokeobl
22ononADP_25 stonecase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 stonedet
24nearestnearADJDegree=Sup25 stoneamod
25stonestoneNOUNNumber=Sing18 brokeobl
26,,PUNCT_27 sayingpunct
27sayingsayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part18 brokeadvcl
28withwithADP_31 smilecase
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art31 smiledet
30maliciousmaliciousADJDegree=Pos31 smileamod
31smilesmileNOUNNumber=Sing27 sayingobl
32::PUNCT_38 eatenpunct
33‘'PUNCT_38 eatenpunct
34AsasSCONJ_38 eatenmark
35youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs38 eatennsubj
36havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin38 eatenaux
37notnotPARTPolarity=Neg38 eatenadvmod
38eateneatVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part3 seizedparataxis
39anythinganythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind38 eatenobj
40youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs44 thirstynsubj
41cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin44 thirstyaux
42notnotPARTPolarity=Neg44 thirstyadvmod
43bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf44 thirstycop
44thirstythirstyADJDegree=Pos38 eatenconj
45..PUNCT_3 seizedpunct
46’'PUNCT_3 seizedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seizepastthoughtthe pitchervn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme
2drinkpastthought not said herevn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3containpastpitchera single draughtall propertyvn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4breakpastthought not said herepitcherthe nearest stonethento atoms resultvn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to atom=Result
5say speech: assertgerundthought not said herewith a malicious smilevn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with smile=Manner
6not eatpresent · perfectyouanythingvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
7not iscanyouthirsty propertytree 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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