The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 119

Then Tubby’s son saw his folly, and while the two canaries flew away he sank on the ground, where, exhausted by his last effort, he lay unconscious.

Who acts: son, two canaries · What happens: see, fly away, sink, exhaust, lie · To what, where: folly, ground

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 (son, two canaries), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 saw	advmod
2	Tubby	Tubby	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Tubby	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 folly	nmod:poss
7	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sank	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sank	cc
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 flew	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 canaries	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 canaries	nummod
13	canaries	canary	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sank	advcl
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 flew	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sank	nsubj
17	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 ground	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ground	det
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sank	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 where	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 ground	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 exhausted	punct
24	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 sank	conj
25	by	by	ADP	_	28 effort	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 effort	nmod:poss
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 effort	amod
28	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 exhausted	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lay	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 lay	nsubj
31	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
32	unconscious	unconscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lay	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Tubby's son	son's folly		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer folly=Stimulus
2	fly away	past	the two canaries				away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sink	past	son		the ground			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	exhaust	participle	son not said here				by son's last effort	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	lie	past	son				unconscious property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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