English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 43
“No, not a bit, nor a drop, unless it would choke you.”
Who acts: drop · What happens: choke · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drop), 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 bit | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 bit | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bit | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 bit | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bit | det |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drop | punct |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 drop | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 drop | det |
| 10 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bit | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 choke | punct |
| 12 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 15 choke | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 choke | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 choke | aux |
| 15 | choke | choke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bit | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 choke | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bit | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choke in a quote | would | drop | you | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Destination |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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