The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 212
The gypsy began to comb her long brown locks, when suddenly she drew a pin from her stays, and, just as the titmouse digs its beak into the heads of linnets and larks, Titty dug the pin into the head of Zizi.
Who acts: gypsy, Zizi, titmouse, Titty · What happens: begin, comb, draw, stay, dig · To what, where: long brown locks, pin, beak
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 (gypsy, Zizi, titmouse, Titty), 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 | 2 gypsy | det |
| 2 | gypsy | gypsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 comb | mark |
| 5 | comb | comb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 locks | nmod:poss |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 locks | amod |
| 8 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 locks | amod |
| 9 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 comb | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drew | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 drew | advmod |
| 12 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 14 drew | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drew | nsubj |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pin | det |
| 16 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 stays | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 stays | nmod:poss |
| 19 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 drew | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 digs | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 digs | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 digs | punct |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 digs | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 digs | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 titmouse | det |
| 26 | titmouse | titmouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 digs | nsubj |
| 27 | digs | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 beak | nmod:poss |
| 29 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 digs | obj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 heads | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 heads | det |
| 32 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 digs | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 linnets | case |
| 34 | linnets | linnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 heads | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 larks | cc |
| 36 | larks | lark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 linnets | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dug | punct |
| 38 | Titty | Titty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 dug | nsubj |
| 39 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 digs | advcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 pin | det |
| 41 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dug | obj |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 head | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 head | det |
| 44 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dug | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Zizi | case |
| 46 | Zizi | Zizi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 head | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the gypsy | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | comb | to-infinitive | the gypsy not said here | Zizi's long brown locks | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | Zizi | a pin | suddenly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Theme | |||
| 4 | stay | present | Zizi not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dig | present | the titmouse | titmouse's beak | into the heads of linnets and larks | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent beak=Instrument into head=Patient | |||
| 6 | dig | past | Titty | the pin | into the head of Zizi | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent pin=Instrument into head=Patient |
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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