The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 219
He was so impatient that he was always full fifty yards in front of the lords and ladies sent by Tubby to bring back Zizi.
Who acts: horse · What happens: be, send, bring back · To what, where: lords, Zizi
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 (horse), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 impatient | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 impatient | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 impatient | advmod |
| 4 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 full | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 full | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 full | cop |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 full | advmod |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 impatient | advcl |
| 10 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 yards | nummod |
| 11 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 full | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yards | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lords | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lords | det |
| 16 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 front | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ladies | cc |
| 18 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lords | conj |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 lords | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Tubby | case |
| 21 | Tubby | Tubby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 bring | mark |
| 23 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sent | advcl |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 bring | advmod |
| 25 | Zizi | Zizi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 bring | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 impatient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | horse | impatient property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | horse | always, full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | participle | the lords and ladies not said here | by Tubby | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | bring back | to-infinitive | Zizi | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument zizi=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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