The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 103
But the gourd was empty; in the excitement of his joy he had forgotten to fill it.
Who acts: gourd, adventurer · What happens: be, forget, not fill, excite, joy · To what, where: excitement, joy, gourd
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gourd, adventurer), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 empty | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gourd | det |
| 3 | gourd | gourd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 empty | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 empty | cop |
| 5 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 excitement | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 excitement | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 excitement | det |
| 9 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 empty | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 joy | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 joy | nmod:poss |
| 12 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 excitement | nmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 forgotten | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 forgotten | aux |
| 15 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 joy | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fill | mark |
| 17 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 forgotten | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fill | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 empty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the gourd | the excitement of adventurer's joy | empty property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | forget | past · perfect | adventurer | adventurer's joy not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not fill | to-infinitive | adventurer not said here | gourd | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | excite | adventurer's joy | nom excitement «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | joy | adventurer | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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