The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 234
But unluckily the rich dress and jewels only made Titty look uglier still, and Désiré could not help feeling hot and uncomfortable when he made his entry with her into the city.
Who acts: rich dress, Titty, Désiré · What happens: make, look, not help, feel, enter · To what, where: entry, city
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 (rich dress, Titty, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 2 | unluckily | unluckily | ADV | _ | 5 dress | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dress | det |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dress | amod |
| 5 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 jewels | cc |
| 7 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dress | conj |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 made | advmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Titty | Titty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 look | nsubj |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | xcomp |
| 12 | uglier | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 look | xcomp |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 look | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 help | cc |
| 16 | Désiré | Désiré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 help | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 help | advmod |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | advcl |
| 20 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 help | xcomp |
| 21 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 feeling | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 uncomfortable | cc |
| 23 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hot | conj |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 made | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 made | nsubj |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 feeling | advcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 entry | nmod:poss |
| 28 | entry | entry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 entry | nmod |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 city | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 city | det |
| 33 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the rich dress and jewels | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | Titty | still | ugly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not help | could | Désiré | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feel not said to happen | gerund | Désiré not said here | hot property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | make | past | Désiré | Désiré's entry | the city | with princess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent entry=Material into city=Product | ||
| 6 | enter | Désiré | with princess | nom entry «communication transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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