The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 132
Scarcely had the canary drunk when she became a beautiful girl, tall and straight as a poplar tree, with black eyes and a golden skin.
Who acts: Scarcely, canary · What happens: have, drink, become · To what, where: beautiful girl
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 (Scarcely, canary), 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 canary | det |
| 4 | canary | canary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drunk | nsubj |
| 5 | drunk | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 became | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 became | nsubj |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drunk | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tall | punct |
| 13 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 straight | cc |
| 15 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tall | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 18 | poplar | poplar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tree | compound |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 straight | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eyes | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 22 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 eyes | amod |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tree | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 skin | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 skin | det |
| 26 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 skin | amod |
| 27 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tree | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Scarcely | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drink | past | the canary | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | become | past | Scarcely | a beautiful girl | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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