The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 79
But she gave him a glass of wine in which she had poured a sleeping-draught.
Who acts: bride · What happens: give, pour · To what, where: glass, maid, sleeping draught, wine
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 gave | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 glass | det |
| 6 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wine | case |
| 8 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glass | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 poured | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 poured | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 poured | aux |
| 13 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 wine | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 draught | det |
| 15 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 draught | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 sleeping | punct |
| 17 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 poured | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | bride | a glass of wine | maid | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient glass=Theme | |||
| 2 | pour | past · perfect | bride | a sleeping draught | wine | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=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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