The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 21
Next morning as the day dawned, Désiré went down to the stable and saddled his pretty white horse.
Who acts: Désiré · What happens: dawn, go down, saddle · To what, where: pretty white horse
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 (Désiré), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 dawned | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dawned | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 went | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dawned | punct |
| 8 | Désiré | Désiré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 stable | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stable | det |
| 13 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saddled | cc |
| 15 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 horse | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 horse | amod |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 horse | amod |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saddled | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | participle | Désiré not said here | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go down | past | Désiré | morning | to the stable; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | saddle | past | Désiré not said here | Désiré's pretty white horse | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination |
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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