The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 74
Did you ever see anybody drink like that?’
Who acts: you · What happens: see · To what, where: anybody drink
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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 drink | compound |
| 6 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 drink | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · do-support | you | anybody drink | ever | like that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drink=Stimulus |
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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