The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 22

The clerk drank the ale himself, and gave the calf milk, which he thought would be better for it.

Who acts: clerk, calf milk · What happens: drink, give, think, be · To what, where: ale

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk, calf milk), 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 clerk	det
2	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drank	nsubj
3	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ale	det
5	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drank	obj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	5 ale	nmod:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drank	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 milk	det
11	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 milk	compound
12	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 better	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 thought	nsubj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 milk	acl:relcl
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 better	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 better	cop
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 gave	ccomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 better	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drink	past	the clerk	the ale man		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ale=Patient
2	give	past	the clerk not said here			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	think speech: other	past	the calf milk			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	would	the calf milk		for ale; good property	tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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