The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 115

‘Give me something to drink, I am dying of thirst,’ said the golden bird.

Who acts: I · What happens: give, drink, die, say · To what, where: something, me, golden bird · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 Give	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 drink	mark
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 something	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dying	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 dying	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dying	aux
10	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Give	advcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 thirst	case
12	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dying	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bird	det
17	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bird	amod
18	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	infinitive		something	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme
2	drink	to-infinitive		something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	die	present · progressive	I			of thirst	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of thirst=Causer
4	say speech: assert	past		the golden bird			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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