The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 243
Well, if you believe that, you may drink cold water and think it bacon,’ the unhappy Tubby answered crossly.
Who acts: you, unhappy Tubby · What happens: believe, drink, think, answer · To what, where: cold water, water
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 (you, unhappy Tubby), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 drink | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 believe | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 drink | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 believe | mark |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 drink | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 drink | aux |
| 10 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 water | amod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drink | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 think | cc |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 drink | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 think | obj |
| 16 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 think | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 answered | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 answered | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Tubby | det |
| 20 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Tubby | amod |
| 21 | Tubby | Tubby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 answered | nsubj |
| 22 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drink | parataxis |
| 23 | crossly | crossly | ADV | _ | 22 answered | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | drink | may | you | cold water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | you not said here | water | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme bacon=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the unhappy Tubby | crossly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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