The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 118
‘I am dying of thirst; give me something to drink.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: die, give, drink · To what, where: something, me
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, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 dying | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dying | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dying | aux |
| 4 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 give | csubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 thirst | case |
| 6 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dying | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 give | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 drink | mark |
| 12 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 something | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present · progressive | I | of thirst | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of thirst=Causer | ||||
| 2 | give | imperative | you not said here | something | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme | |||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | you not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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