The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 70
‘A single bucket of water will not quench my thirst; give me more!’
Who acts: single bucket, my · What happens: not quench, give, thirst · To what, where: thirst, more, me
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 (single bucket, my), 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 | _ | 9 quench | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bucket | det |
| 3 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bucket | amod |
| 4 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quench | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bucket | nmod |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 quench | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 quench | advmod |
| 9 | quench | quench | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 thirst | nmod:poss |
| 11 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quench | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 quench | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 give | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 quench | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 quench | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not quench | future | a single bucket of water | my thirst | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | a single bucket of water not said here | more | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient more=Theme | |||
| 3 | thirst | my | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=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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