The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 136

She answered that she was called the Princess Zizi; she was about sixteen years old, and for ten years of that time the witch had kept her shut up in an orange, in the shape of a canary.

Who acts: Scarcely, witch · What happens: answer, call, be, keep, shut up · To what, where: Scarcely, witch, orange · 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 (Scarcely, witch), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 called	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	aux:pass
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 answered	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princess	det
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
9	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Princess	flat
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 old	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 old	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 old	cop
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 sixteen	advmod
14	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 old	obl:unmarked
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 answered	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 kept	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 kept	cc
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 years	case
20	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 kept	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 kept	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 witch	det
26	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 kept	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 kept	aux
28	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 old	parataxis
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 kept	obj
30	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 kept	xcomp
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 shut	compound:prt
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 orange	case
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 orange	det
34	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shut	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 shape	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 shape	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 shape	det
38	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 kept	parataxis
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 canary	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 canary	det
41	canary	canary	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shape	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Scarcely					tree rules
2	call	past · passive		Scarcely				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	is	past	Scarcely			year	old property	tree rules
4	keep	past · perfect · passive		the witch		time; year		tree rules
5	shut up	participle	the witch not said here		a orange			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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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