The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 248
When the moment arrived to serve the roast goose, there was a pause, and Tubby took the opportunity to lay down his knife and fork for a little.
Who acts: moment, Tubby · What happens: arrive, serve, be, lay down · To what, where: roast goose, knife
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 (moment, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 arrived | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 was | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 serve | mark |
| 6 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 arrived | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 goose | det |
| 8 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 goose | compound |
| 9 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 serve | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pause | det |
| 14 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 17 | Tubby | Tubby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 opportunity | det |
| 20 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 lay | mark |
| 22 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 opportunity | acl |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 lay | compound:prt |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 knife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fork | cc |
| 27 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knife | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 little | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 little | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lay | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the moment | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | serve | to-infinitive | the moment not said here | the roast goose | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Tubby | take property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lay down | to-infinitive | Tubby not said here | pause's knife and fork | for a little | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent knife=Result for little=Beneficiary |
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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