The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 213
No sooner did Zizi feel the prick of the pin than she became a bird again, and, spreading her wings, she flew away.
Who acts: Zizi · What happens: feel, become, spread, fly away · To what, where: prick, bird, wings
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 (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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 feel | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | aux |
| 4 | Zizi | Zizi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prick | det |
| 7 | prick | prick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feel | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pin | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pin | det |
| 10 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prick | nmod |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 became | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 became | nsubj |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | xcomp |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 became | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spreading | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spreading | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spreading | punct |
| 20 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 feel | parataxis |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wings | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spreading | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 flew | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 flew | nsubj |
| 25 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 spreading | parataxis |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 flew | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · do-support | Zizi | the prick of the pin | soon property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prick=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | past | Zizi | a bird | again | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | spread | gerund | Zizi's wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fly away | past | Zizi | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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