The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 184
The pitcher may go many times to the well....’
Who acts: pitcher · What happens: go · To what, where: well
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 (pitcher), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pitcher | det |
| 2 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 times | amod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 well | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 well | det |
| 9 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 10 | .... | .... | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | may | the pitcher | the well | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=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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