The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 17

‘Take that to your master,’ she said; but as she spoke the glass cracked and the poison spurted over the horse, and it was so powerful that the poor creature sank down dead.

Who acts: you, woman, horse, poor creature · What happens: take, say, speak, crack, spurt, be · To what, where: that, master, glass, poison · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woman, horse, poor creature), 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	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Take	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 master	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 master	nmod:poss
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 cracked	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 cracked	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 spoke	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 spoke	nsubj
15	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cracked	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 glass	det
17	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spoke	obj
18	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 poison	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 poison	det
21	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cracked	obj
22	spurted	spurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 poison	acl
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 horse	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 horse	det
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spurted	obl:agent
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 powerful	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 powerful	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 powerful	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 powerful	cop
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 powerful	advmod
31	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cracked	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 sank	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 creature	det
34	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 creature	amod
35	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sank	nsubj
36	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 powerful	advcl
37	down	down	ADP	_	36 sank	compound:prt
38	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sank	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	that	your master		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme to master=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	past	woman	the glass			tree rules
4	crack	past		the poison			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location poison=Theme
5	spurt	participle		the poison not said here			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
6	is	past	horse			powerful property	tree rules
7	sink down	past	the poor creature			dead property	vn other_cos-45.4 «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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