The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 66

At last a third sister came to him and gave him a drop of something to drink, which she said would give him the needful strength.

Who acts: last third sister, drop · What happens: come, give, drink, say · To what, where: hair, drop, needful strength · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (last third sister, drop), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sister	amod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sister	det
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 sister	amod
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 drop	det
13	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 something	case
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 drop	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 drink	mark
17	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 something	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 said	obj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 drop	acl:relcl
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 give	aux
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 gave	ccomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 strength	det
26	needful	needful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 strength	amod
27	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come	past	a last third sister		hair	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	give	past	a last third sister not said here		hair	tree rules
3	drink	to-infinitive	a drop of something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	drop	a drop of something		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
5	give	would	a drop of something	the needful strength	hair	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient strength=Theme

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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