The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 113
He drew out an orange and opened it with his knife.
Who acts: Désiré · What happens: draw out, open · To what, where: orange, hand
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 (Désiré), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 drew | compound:prt |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 orange | det |
| 5 | orange | orange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 opened | cc |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 opened | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 knife | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 knife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw out | past | Désiré | a orange | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orange=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | past | Désiré not said here | hand | with Désiré's knife | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with knife=Instrument |
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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