The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 18

‘I can quench my thirst without you,’ and bending over the well he lapped up the water so greedily that he plunged his face, beard and all, right into the crystal mirror.

Who acts: I, thirst, my · What happens: quench, bend, lap up, plunge, thirst · To what, where: thirst, well, water, face

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thirst, my), 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	_	4 quench	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 quench	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 quench	aux
4	quench	quench	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 thirst	nmod:poss
6	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quench	obj
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 quench	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 quench	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 quench	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lapped	cc
12	bending	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 lapped	csubj
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 well	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 well	det
15	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bending	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lapped	nsubj
17	lapped	lap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quench	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 lapped	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lapped	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 greedily	advmod
22	greedily	greedily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lapped	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 plunged	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 plunged	nsubj
25	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 greedily	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 face	nmod:poss
27	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 plunged	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 beard	punct
29	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 face	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 mirror	cc
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 mirror	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 mirror	punct
33	right	right	ADV	_	37 mirror	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	37 mirror	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 mirror	det
36	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 mirror	amod
37	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 face	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 quench	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	quench	can	I	my thirst		without you	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer
2	bend	gerund			the well		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over well=Location
3	lap up	past	thirst	the water			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
4	plunge	past	thirst	thirst's face and beard and the crystal mirror			vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=Theme
5	thirst		my				nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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