The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 192
Then he handed to her an old copper milk-can, and said:
Who acts: pride · What happens: hand, say · To what, where: old copper milk, 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 (pride), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 handed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 handed | nsubj |
| 3 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 handed | obl |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 milk | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 milk | amod |
| 8 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 milk | compound |
| 9 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 handed | obj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 can | punct |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 milk | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 handed | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | past | pride | a old copper milk | Zizi | then | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent milk=Theme to she=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | pride not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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