The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 211
The innocent Zizi came down at once, and stood by Titty.
Who acts: innocent Zizi · What happens: come down, stand
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 (innocent 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 | 3 Zizi | det |
| 2 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Zizi | amod |
| 3 | Zizi | Zizi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stood | cc |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Titty | case |
| 12 | Titty | Titty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | the innocent Zizi | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the innocent Zizi not said here | by Titty | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by titty=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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