Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 148
"The woman of the house gave me a drink that made me forget."
Who acts: woman, drink, boy · What happens: give, make, forget · To what, where: drink, boy
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, drink, boy), 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 | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woman | nmod |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 drink | det |
| 10 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drink | acl:relcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | the woman of the house | a drink | boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient drink=Theme | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | a drink | boy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | forget in a quote | infinitive | boy not said here | tree rules |
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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