The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 164
It was big enough to hold her altogether, but she peeped out, and her pretty head was reflected in the clear water.
Who acts: noise, Zizi · What happens: be, hold, peep out, reflect · To what, where: Zizi, pretty head, clear water
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 (noise, Zizi), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 big | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 big | cop |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 big | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hold | mark |
| 6 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 big | advcl |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hold | obj |
| 8 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 6 hold | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 peeped | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 peeped | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 peeped | nsubj |
| 12 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 big | parataxis |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 peeped | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reflected | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 reflected | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 head | amod |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reflected | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 reflected | aux:pass |
| 20 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 peeped | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 23 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 water | amod |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reflected | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | noise | big, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | to-infinitive | noise not said here | Zizi | altogether property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | peep out | past | Zizi | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | reflect | past · passive | Zizi's pretty head | the clear water | 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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