The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 33
Directly the last mouthful had disappeared she was seized with such violent thirst that she caught up a great pot full of water and drank it at a single draught.
Who acts: last mouthful, mouthful · What happens: disappear, seize, catch up, drink · To what, where: mouthful, great pot, pot, single draught
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last mouthful, mouthful), 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 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 6 disappeared | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mouthful | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mouthful | amod |
| 4 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disappeared | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 disappeared | aux |
| 6 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seized | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seized | aux:pass |
| 9 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 disappeared | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 thirst | case |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thirst | amod |
| 12 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thirst | amod |
| 13 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seized | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 caught | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 caught | nsubj |
| 16 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seized | advcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 caught | compound:prt |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pot | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pot | amod |
| 20 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | obj |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pot | amod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 full | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 drank | cc |
| 25 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 caught | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 drank | obj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 draught | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 draught | det |
| 29 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 draught | amod |
| 30 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drank | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past · perfect | the last mouthful | directly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | past · passive | mouthful | with such violent thirst | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch up | past | mouthful | a great pot | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drink | past | mouthful not said here | pot | a single draught | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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