The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 138

All day long he drank, and drank, and drank, till instead of half the cellar, he had drunk the whole, and there was not a cask but what stood empty.

Who acts: king, cask · What happens: drink, be, stand · To what, where: cellar

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 (king, cask), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:2041): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 long	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 drank	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drank	nsubj
5	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 drank	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 drank	cc
8	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drank	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drank	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drank	cc
11	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drank	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drunk	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 drunk	mark
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	16 half	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	18 cellar	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cellar	det
18	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drunk	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drunk	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 drunk	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 drunk	aux
22	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 drank	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 whole	det
24	whole	whole	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drunk	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 was	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 was	cc
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drank	conj
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 cask	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cask	det
31	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 was	nsubj
32	but	but	SCONJ	_	34 stood	mark
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 stood	nsubj
34	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cask	acl:relcl
35	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 stood	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drink	past	king			long property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	past	king not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	past	king not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	past · perfect	king	half cellar			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Patient
5	be	past	a cask		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stand	past	a cask			empty property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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