The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 189
And she flung the bucket so high in the air that it stuck in the branches of an oak.
Who acts: Zizi, bucket · What happens: fling, stick · To what, where: bucket, branches
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, bucket), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 flung | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flung | nsubj |
| 3 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bucket | det |
| 5 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flung | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 high | advmod |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flung | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 high | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 stuck | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stuck | nsubj |
| 13 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flung | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 branches | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 branches | det |
| 16 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stuck | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 oak | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 oak | det |
| 19 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 branches | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | past | Zizi | the bucket | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stick | past | bucket | the branches of a oak | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in branch=Destination |
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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