The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 136
Snowdrop felt so hungry and so thirsty that she ate a bit of bread and a little porridge from each plate, and drank a drop of wine out of each tumbler.
Who acts: Snowdrop · What happens: feel, eat, drink · To what, where: bit, drop, tumbler
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snowdrop), 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 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 hungry | advmod |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thirsty | cc |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 thirsty | advmod |
| 7 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hungry | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 ate | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ate | nsubj |
| 10 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thirsty | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bit | det |
| 12 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ate | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bread | case |
| 14 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bit | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 porridge | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 porridge | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 porridge | amod |
| 18 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bit | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 plate | case |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 plate | det |
| 21 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 porridge | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drank | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 drank | cc |
| 24 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 drop | det |
| 26 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drank | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wine | case |
| 28 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drop | nmod |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 tumbler | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 tumbler | case |
| 31 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 tumbler | det |
| 32 | tumbler | tumbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drank | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Snowdrop | hungry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | SNOWDROP | a bit of bread and a little porridge from each plate | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drink | past | Snowdrop not said here | a drop of wine | each tumbler | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Patient |
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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