The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 246
The feast was excellent, but Désiré hardly touched anything.
Who acts: feast, Désiré · What happens: be, touch · To what, where: anything
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 (feast, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 feast | det |
| 2 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 excellent | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 excellent | cop |
| 4 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 touched | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 touched | cc |
| 7 | Désiré | Désiré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 touched | nsubj |
| 8 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 9 touched | advmod |
| 9 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 excellent | parataxis |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 touched | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 excellent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the feast | excellent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | touch | past | Désiré | anything | hardly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Co-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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