The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 127

Before I give you my daughter you must find a man who can drink half the contents of my cellar in one day.’

Who acts: I, you, man · What happens: give, find, drink · To what, where: daughter, you, man, contents

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 give	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 find	advcl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 drink	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 drink	aux
14	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 man	acl:relcl
15	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	17 contents	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 contents	det
17	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	14 drink	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 cellar	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cellar	nmod:poss
20	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 contents	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 day	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 day	nummod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drink	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	give	present	I	my daughter	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient daughter=Theme
2	find	must	you	a man			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
3	drink	can	a man	half contents of my cellar		day	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=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 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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