The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 111
This idea put some life into him.
Who acts: you · What happens: put · To what, where: idea
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 (you), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 idea | det |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 life | det |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | this idea | into Désiré | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent idea=Asset life=Goal |
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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