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title: I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint. Who acts: I, top. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 44

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I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint.

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**Who acts:** I, top · **What happens:** drink off, do, not hold · **To what, where:** top, draught, pint

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, top), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:43:44
# text = I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
20	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pint	pint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink off** | past | I | top |  | a draught |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | might | I | a draught |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **hold** | past · do-support | top | half pint |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pint=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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