The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 159
‘Don’t be long,’ replied Zizi, and she watched him go with wistful eyes.
Who acts: Zizi, horse · What happens: do, not be, reply, watch, go · To what, where: horse · 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 (Zizi, horse), 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 | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 long | cop |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Zizi | Zizi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 watched | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 watched | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 watched | nsubj |
| 13 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 watched | obj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 watched | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 17 | wistful | wistful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not is | infinitive | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Zizi | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | watch | past | Zizi | horse | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | horse not said here | with wistful eyes | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with eye=Beneficiary |
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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