The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 187
The gypsy returned to the fountain, and addressing once more the image of Zizi, she said:
Who acts: gypsy, Zizi · What happens: return, address, say, image · To what, where: image, Zizi · 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 (gypsy, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gypsy | det |
| 2 | gypsy | gypsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 fountain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fountain | det |
| 6 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 9 | addressing | address | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 said | advcl |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 addressing | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 image | det |
| 13 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 addressing | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Zizi | case |
| 15 | Zizi | Zizi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 image | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 addressing | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the gypsy | to the fountain result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fountain=Result | ||||
| 2 | address | gerund | Zizi not said here | the image of Zizi | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Zizi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | image | Zizi | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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