The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 59

‘Why, I should drink it up in one gulp.’

Who acts: I · What happens: drink up · To what, where: other, one gulp

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), 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	_	6 drink	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 drink	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 drink	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 drink	aux
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drink	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 drink	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 gulp	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 gulp	nummod
11	gulp	gulp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drink	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 drink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink up	should	I	other		one gulp			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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