The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 190
‘I met a wolf,’ she told the bricklayer, ‘and I broke the bucket across his nose.’
Who acts: I, Zizi · What happens: meet, tell, break · To what, where: wolf, bricklayer, bucket, nose · 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 (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wolf | det |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 met | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bricklayer | det |
| 11 | bricklayer | bricklayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ‘ | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bricklayer | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 broke | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 broke | nsubj |
| 16 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bucket | det |
| 18 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broke | obj |
| 19 | across | across | ADP | _ | 21 nose | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 nose | nmod:poss |
| 21 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broke | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | I | a wolf | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Zizi | the bricklayer and ‘ | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bricklayer=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | break | past | I | the bucket | son's nose | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bucket=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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