The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 28
‘Eat that, dear beasts,’ she said,’ and when you are thirsty you shall have a good drink.’
Who acts: you, maiden · What happens: eat, say, be, have · To what, where: that, good drink · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, maiden), 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 | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
| 2 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Eat | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beasts | punct |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beasts | amod |
| 6 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Eat | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Eat | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 have | cc |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 thirsty | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 thirsty | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 thirsty | cop |
| 17 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 have | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Eat | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 drink | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 drink | amod |
| 23 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | imperative | you not said here | that | dear beasts obl | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | you | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | shall | you | a good drink | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=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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