The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 19
Some time afterwards, it happened that the Prior of the Abbey of Saint Amand sent to the Lord of Avesnes a basket of oranges, with a beautifully-written letter saying that these golden fruit, then unknown in Flanders, came straight from a land where the sun always shone.
Who acts: it, Prior, written letter, golden fruit · What happens: happen, send, write, say, come, shine · To what, where: basket, Lord, land, sun · 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 (it, Prior, written letter, golden fruit), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 2 time | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 sent | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prior | det |
| 9 | Prior | Prior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Abbey | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Abbey | det |
| 12 | Abbey | Abbey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Prior | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Saint | case |
| 14 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Abbey | nmod |
| 15 | Amand | Amand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Saint | flat |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happened | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Lord | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Lord | det |
| 19 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Avesnes | case |
| 21 | Avesnes | Avesne | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Lord | nmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 basket | det |
| 23 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 oranges | case |
| 25 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 basket | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 letter | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 letter | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 letter | det |
| 29 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 31 written | advmod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 beautifully | punct |
| 31 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 letter | amod |
| 32 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 33 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 letter | acl |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 came | mark |
| 35 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 37 fruit | det |
| 36 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 fruit | amod |
| 37 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 came | nsubj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 unknown | punct |
| 39 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 unknown | advmod |
| 40 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 fruit | amod |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 Flanders | case |
| 42 | Flanders | Flander | PROPN | Number=Plur | 40 unknown | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fruit | punct |
| 44 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 saying | ccomp |
| 45 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 48 land | advmod |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 land | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 land | det |
| 48 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 came | obl |
| 49 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 53 shone | advmod |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 sun | det |
| 51 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 shone | nsubj:pass |
| 52 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 53 shone | advmod |
| 53 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 land | acl:relcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the Prior of the Abbey of Saint | a basket of oranges | the Lord of Avesnes | with a written letter | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basket=Theme to lord=Destination | ||
| 3 | write | participle | beautifully property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | a written letter not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come | past | this golden fruit | a land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | shine | participle · passive | the sun | always property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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