The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 193

‘It will not even wet your mouths.’

Who acts: way · What happens: not wet · To what, where: mouths

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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	_	6 wet	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wet	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wet	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wet	advmod
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 wet	advmod
6	wet	wet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouths	nmod:poss
8	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wet	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wet	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 wet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wet	future	way	your mouths					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouth=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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