The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 116
‘Wait a minute,’ replied Désiré, so much astonished that he forgot his own sufferings; and to satisfy the bird he took a second orange, and opened it without thinking what he was doing.
Who acts: Désiré · What happens: wait, reply, astonish, forget, satisfy, take · To what, where: own sufferings, bird, second orange, canary · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 2 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minute | det |
| 4 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wait | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Désiré | Désiré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 astonished | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 astonished | advmod |
| 12 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 forgot | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 forgot | nsubj |
| 15 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 astonished | ccomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sufferings | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sufferings | amod |
| 18 | sufferings | suffering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 forgot | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 satisfy | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 satisfy | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 satisfy | mark |
| 22 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bird | det |
| 24 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 satisfy | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 took | nsubj |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 bird | acl:relcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 orange | det |
| 28 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 orange | amod |
| 29 | orange | orange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 opened | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 opened | cc |
| 32 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 opened | obj |
| 34 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 35 thinking | mark |
| 35 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 opened | advcl |
| 36 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 doing | obj |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 doing | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 doing | aux |
| 39 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 thinking | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | infinitive | minute | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Désiré | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | astonish | past | Désiré not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | forget | past | Désiré | Désiré's own sufferings | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | satisfy | to-infinitive | Désiré not said here | the bird | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | take | past | Désiré | a second orange | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orange=Theme | ||||
| 7 | open | past | canary | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||||
| 8 | think speech: other | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 9 | do | past · progressive | Désiré | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 10 | suffer | Désiré | nom suffering «state intransitive»: 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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