Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 67
"It is a custom in this country," said the second wife, "that the person who offers a drink takes a draught out of it first."
Who acts: drink, custom, person · What happens: be, say, offer, take · To what, where: custom, country, second wife, drink, draught · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drink, custom, person), 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 | _ | 5 custom | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 custom | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 custom | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 custom | det |
| 5 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 custom | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 custom | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 custom | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 wife | amod |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wife | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wife | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 takes | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 person | det |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 takes | nsubj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 offers | nsubj |
| 21 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 person | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 drink | det |
| 23 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 offers | obj |
| 24 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 draught | det |
| 26 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 takes | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 takes | obl |
| 30 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 takes | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | drink | a custom | this country | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a custom | the second wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | offer in a quote | present | the person | a drink | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent drink=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | present | the person | a draught | drink | first property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent draught=Theme out it=Initial_Location |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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