The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 34
Then, having no more in the house, she ran in next door and said, ‘Neighbour, give me, I pray you, something to drink.’
Who acts: mouthful, I · What happens: have, run, say, give, pray, drink · To what, where: more, next door, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mouthful, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 ran | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 ran | advcl |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 having | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 more | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 having | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 door | amod |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Neighbour | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Neighbour | punct |
| 19 | Neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ran | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pray | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 pray | nsubj |
| 25 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 pray | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 something | punct |
| 28 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 pray | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 drink | mark |
| 30 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 something | acl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | mouthful not said here | more | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | ||||
| 2 | run | past | mouthful | next door | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in door=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | mouthful not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give | infinitive | mouthful not said here | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pray | present | I | you | something obl | tree rules | |||
| 6 | drink | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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