The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 156

‘My dear Zizi,’ said Tubby’s son, ‘we cannot present ourselves before my father like two common people who have come back from a walk.

Who acts: dear Zizi, we, two common people · What happens: say, not present, come back · To what, where: son, ourselves, walk · 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 (dear Zizi, we, two common people), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 Zizi	nmod:poss
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Zizi	amod
4	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Zizi	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Zizi	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Tubby	Tubby	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Tubby	case
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 present	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 present	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 present	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 present	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 present	advmod
16	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
17	ourselves	ourselve	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 present	obj
18	before	before	ADP	_	20 father	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 present	obl
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 people	case
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 people	nummod
23	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 people	amod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 father	nmod
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 come	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
27	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 people	acl:relcl
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 walk	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 walk	det
31	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My dear Zizi	Tubby's son			tree rules
2	not present	can	we	ourselves		before my father like two common people	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselve=Theme
3	come back	present · perfect	two common people		a walk		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from walk=Initial_Location

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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