The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 202

‘I am waiting for my lover,’ Zizi replied; and then, with a simplicity quite natural in a girl who so lately had been a canary, she told all her story.

Who acts: I, Zizi · What happens: wait, reply, be, tell · To what, where: canary, story · 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	_	4 waiting	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 waiting	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 waiting	aux
4	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 replied	advcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 lover	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lover	nmod:poss
7	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waiting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 waiting	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
10	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 replied	nsubj
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 girl	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 girl	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 girl	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 simplicity	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 simplicity	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 simplicity	det
18	simplicity	simplicity	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 girl	nsubj
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 natural	advmod
20	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 girl	amod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 girl	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 girl	det
23	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	advcl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	23 girl	nmod
25	so	so	ADV	_	30 canary	advmod
26	lately	lately	ADV	_	30 canary	advmod
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 canary	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 canary	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 canary	det
30	canary	canary	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 who	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 canary	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 told	nsubj
33	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 canary	acl:relcl
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 story	det:predet
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 story	nmod:poss
36	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 told	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	present · progressive	I		for my lover	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past	Zizi			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past · perfect		a canary	lately property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	Zizi	Zizi's story		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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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