The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 175
Titty was often sent by the bricklayer to fetch water from the fountain, and as she was very proud and lazy the gypsy disliked this very much.
Who acts: bricklayer, woman, gypsy · What happens: send, fetch, be, dislike · To what, where: Titty, water, fountain, this
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 (bricklayer, woman, gypsy), 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 | Titty | titty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux:pass |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 bricklayer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bricklayer | det |
| 7 | bricklayer | bricklayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fetch | mark |
| 9 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fetch | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 fountain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fountain | det |
| 13 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fetch | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 disliked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 disliked | cc |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 proud | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 proud | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 proud | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 proud | advmod |
| 20 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 disliked | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lazy | cc |
| 22 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 proud | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gypsy | det |
| 24 | gypsy | gypsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 disliked | nsubj |
| 25 | disliked | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 disliked | obj |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 disliked | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | the bricklayer | Titty | often property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | fetch | to-infinitive | the bricklayer not said here | water | the fountain | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from fountain=Source | |||
| 3 | is | past | woman | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | woman not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | dislike | past | the gypsy | this | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
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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