The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 57

‘Well, there’s a whole lake in front of you; why don’t you drink some of that?’

Who acts: you · What happens: not drink · To what, where: some

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 (you), 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	_	18 drink	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	18 drink	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ’s	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 ’s	expl
5	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 drink	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lake	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lake	amod
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ’s	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 front	case
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lake	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 front	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 drink	punct
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 drink	advmod
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 drink	aux
16	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 drink	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 drink	nsubj
18	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 drink	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 some	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 drink	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 drink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not drink	present · do-support	you	some					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient

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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