The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 195
Titty went off rubbing her sides; but this time she did not dare to disobey, and in a very bad temper stooped down over the well.
Who acts: Titty, Zizi · What happens: go off, rub, not dare, not disobey, stoop down · To what, where: sides, bad temper
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 (Titty, 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 | Titty | titty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sides | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rubbing | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 dare | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 dare | cc |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dare | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dare | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dare | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 dare | advmod |
| 14 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 disobey | mark |
| 16 | disobey | disobey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 dare | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stooped | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stooped | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 temper | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 temper | det |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 bad | advmod |
| 22 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 temper | amod |
| 23 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stooped | obl |
| 24 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | conj |
| 25 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 stooped | compound:prt |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 well | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 well | det |
| 28 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stooped | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | Titty | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rub | gerund | Titty not said here | Zizi's sides | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent side=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not dare | past · do-support | Zizi | time | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not disobey | to-infinitive | Zizi not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stoop down | participle | Titty not said here | a bad temper | over the well | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in temper=Location |
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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