The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 132

Now Christian was a merry fellow who liked good company; he could both drink and sing, and talk and boast as well, when he got a little drop in his head.

Who acts: Christian, merry fellow · What happens: be, like, drink, sing, talk, boast · To what, where: merry fellow, good company, little drop, head

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian, merry fellow), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Christian	advmod
2	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fellow	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fellow	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fellow	det
5	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 liked	nsubj
8	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fellow	acl:relcl
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 company	amod
10	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 liked	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 drink	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 drink	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 drink	aux
14	both	both	ADV	_	15 drink	advmod
15	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fellow	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sing	cc
17	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 drink	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 talk	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 talk	cc
20	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 drink	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 boast	cc
22	boast	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 talk	conj
23	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	22 boast	advmod
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 as	fixed
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 got	punct
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 got	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 got	nsubj
28	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 drink	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 drop	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 drop	amod
31	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 got	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 head	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drop	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Christian	a merry fellow			tree rules
2	like	past	a merry fellow	good company			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot company=Theme
3	drink	could	Christian			both property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sing speech: express	infinitive	Christian not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	talk	infinitive	Christian not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	boast speech: other	present	Christian not said here				vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	get	past	Christian	a little drop	Christian's head		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drop=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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