The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 69
The Prince gave him a bucketful of water; he drank it up and asked for more, saying:
Who acts: Prince, throat · What happens: give, drink up, ask, say · To what, where: bucketful, throat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, throat), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | 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 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bucketful | det |
| 6 | bucketful | bucketful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bucketful | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 drank | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drank | nsubj |
| 11 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drank | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 drank | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 drank | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 more | case |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 asked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saying | punct |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 drank | advcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Prince | a bucketful of water | throat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bucketful=Theme | |||
| 2 | drink up | past | throat | bucketful | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | throat not said here | for more | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | throat not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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