The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 132
‘Why, tell the man to do it who drinks up everything.’
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, do, drink up · To what, where: man, palace, everything · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you), 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 | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 tell | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 drinks | nsubj |
| 11 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | parataxis |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 drinks | compound:prt |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 drinks | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | the man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | palace | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | drink up | present | everything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=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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