The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 146
‘They are pink and white,’ he replied, ‘and their eyes are blue.’
Who acts: girls, Désiré, eyes · What happens: be, reply
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 (girls, Désiré, eyes), 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 | _ | 4 pink | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pink | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pink | cop |
| 4 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 white | cc |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pink | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pink | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blue | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 17 blue | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blue | cc |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 blue | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 blue | cop |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pink | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pink | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 pink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | girls = girl | pink property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | girls = girl not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Désiré | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | girls's eyes | blue property | tree rules |
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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