The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 56
‘I want water to drink, I’m so thirsty,’ replied the man.
Who acts: I, water · What happens: want, drink, be, reply · To what, where: water, man
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, water), 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 | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ’m | advcl |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 drink | mark |
| 6 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 ’m | nsubj |
| 9 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 thirsty | advmod |
| 11 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ’m | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ’m | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drink not said to happen | to-infinitive | water not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | present | I | thirsty property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
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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