The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 236
In order to do her more honour, Tubby came to meet her at the foot of the great marble staircase.
Who acts: Tubby · What happens: do, come, meet · To what, where: eye, foot
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 (Tubby), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 do | mark |
| 2 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 In | fixed |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | advcl |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 honour | amod |
| 7 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 9 | Tubby | Tubby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 meet | mark |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | xcomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 meet | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 foot | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 foot | det |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 staircase | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 staircase | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 staircase | amod |
| 20 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 staircase | compound |
| 21 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 foot | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | to-infinitive | Tubby not said here | eye | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Tubby | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | Tubby not said here | eye | the foot of the great marble staircase | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
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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