The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 27
But the years have chilled my blood and drunk my strength.
What happens: chill, drink · To what, where: years, strength
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 5 chilled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 years | det |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chilled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chilled | aux |
| 5 | chilled | chill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 blood | nmod:poss |
| 7 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chilled | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drunk | cc |
| 9 | drunk | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chilled | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 strength | nmod:poss |
| 11 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drunk | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill | present · perfect · passive | the years | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer blood=Result | |||||
| 2 | drink | past | my strength | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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