The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 65

‘But first you may drink my health in this glass of wine,’ and as she spoke she filled a crystal goblet with a liquid that looked like melted gold.

Who acts: you, Princess, liquid · What happens: drink, speak, fill, look, melt · To what, where: health, glass, crystal goblet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Princess, liquid), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 drink	cc
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 drink	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 drink	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 drink	aux
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 health	nmod:poss
8	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 glass	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 glass	det
11	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 wine	case
13	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 glass	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 drink	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 drink	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 filled	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 spoke	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 spoke	nsubj
19	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 filled	advcl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 filled	nsubj
21	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drink	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 goblet	det
23	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 goblet	amod
24	goblet	goblet	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 filled	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 liquid	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 liquid	det
27	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 filled	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 looked	nsubj
29	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 liquid	acl:relcl
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 gold	case
31	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 gold	amod
32	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 looked	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drink	may	you	my health	this glass of wine	first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Patient
2	speak speech: other	past	Princess				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fill	past	Princess	a crystal goblet		with a liquid	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent goblet=Patient with liquid=Instrument
4	look	past	a liquid			like melted gold	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	melt	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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