The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 29
‘With a little water,’ replied the man; ‘only sprinkle a few drops over me and I shall feel better.’
Who acts: I · What happens: reply, sprinkle, feel · To what, where: man, few drops
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 water | amod |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 water | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sprinkle | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 sprinkle | punct |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 sprinkle | advmod |
| 14 | sprinkle | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 drops | det |
| 16 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 drops | amod |
| 17 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sprinkle | obj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sprinkle | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 feel | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 feel | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 feel | aux |
| 23 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sprinkle | conj |
| 24 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 feel | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the man | with a little water | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sprinkle | infinitive | a few drops | over me | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme over i=Destination | ||||
| 3 | feel | shall | I | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 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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