The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 114
Out of it flew the prettiest little female canary that ever was seen.
Who acts: hand · What happens: fly, see · To what, where: prettiest little female canary
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 (hand), 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 4 flew | mark |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Out | fixed |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 canary | det |
| 6 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 canary | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 canary | amod |
| 8 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 canary | amod |
| 9 | canary | canary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 seen | advmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux:pass |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 canary | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | hand | the prettiest little female canary | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location canary=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | the prettiest little female canary | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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