The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 191
The bricklayer asked her no more questions, but took down a broom and gave her such a beating that her pride was humbled a little.
Who acts: bricklayer, Zizi · What happens: ask, take down, give, humble, pride · To what, where: more questions, Zizi, broom, beating, pride
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 (bricklayer, 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 bricklayer | det |
| 2 | bricklayer | bricklayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 questions | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 questions | amod |
| 7 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 asked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 took | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 broom | det |
| 13 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 beating | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 beating | det |
| 19 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 humbled | mark |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pride | nmod:poss |
| 22 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 humbled | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 humbled | aux:pass |
| 24 | humbled | humble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 gave | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 little | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 humbled | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the bricklayer | more questions | Zizi | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take down | past | a broom | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent broom=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | past | such beating | Zizi | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient beating=Theme | ||||
| 4 | humble | past · passive | Zizi's pride | a little obl:unmarked | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | pride | Zizi | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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