The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 129
‘I am thirsty; give me something to drink.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, 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), 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 thirsty | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thirsty | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thirsty | cop |
| 4 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thirsty | parataxis |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 give | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 drink | mark |
| 10 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 something | acl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thirsty | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 thirsty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | something | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | 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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