The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 133

So they sent for the man and said, ‘Do you think you are able to drink half the royal cellar in one day?’

Who acts: boys, you · What happens: send, say, think, be, drink · To what, where: royal cellar · 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 (boys, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
11	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 think	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 think	nsubj
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 able	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 able	cop
16	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 think	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 drink	mark
18	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 able	xcomp
19	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	22 cellar	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cellar	det
21	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cellar	amod
22	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drink	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 day	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 day	nummod
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drink	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	boys = boy			for the man	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	boys = boy not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	think speech: other	present · do-support	you				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	you			able property	tree rules
5	drink	to-infinitive	you not said here	half royal cellar	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cellar=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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