The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 225
Now the good-natured Désiré was as soft-hearted as he was brave.
Who acts: natured Désiré, Désiré · What happens: be
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 (natured Désiré, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 hearted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Désiré | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 natured | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 5 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Désiré | amod |
| 6 | Désiré | Désiré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hearted | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hearted | cop |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 hearted | mark |
| 9 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hearted | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 soft | punct |
| 11 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 brave | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brave | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brave | cop |
| 15 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hearted | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hearted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the natured Désiré | now | hearted property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | Désiré | brave property | tree rules |
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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