The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 55

So he took him to the King’s cellar, and the man sat down before the huge casks and drank and drank till he drank up the whole contents of the cellar before the day closed.

Who acts: Dullhead, man · What happens: take, sit down, drink, drink up, close · To what, where: parson, cellar, huge casks, whole contents, day

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dullhead, man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 cellar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cellar	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	before	before	ADP	_	19 casks	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 casks	det
18	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 casks	amod
19	casks	cask	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sat	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 drank	cc
21	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drank	cc
23	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 drank	conj
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 drank	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drank	nsubj
26	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 drank	ccomp
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 drank	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 contents	det
29	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 contents	amod
30	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	26 drank	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 cellar	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cellar	det
33	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 contents	nmod
34	before	before	ADP	_	36 day	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 day	det
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drank	obl
37	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 day	acl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	Dullhead	parson	the King's cellar		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to cellar=Destination
2	sit down	past	the man		the huge casks		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before cask=Location
3	drink	past	Dullhead not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	past	Dullhead not said here				tree rules
5	drink up	past	Dullhead	the whole contents of the cellar		day	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=Patient
6	close	participle		the day not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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