The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 249
But as the goose gave no sign of appearing, he sent his head carver to find out what was the matter in the kitchen.
Who acts: goose, sign · What happens: give, appear, send, find out, be · To what, where: sign, head carver, matter, kitchen
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 (goose, sign), 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 | _ | 12 sent | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 gave | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 goose | det |
| 4 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | advcl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 sign | det |
| 7 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 appearing | mark |
| 9 | appearing | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 sign | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 carver | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carver | compound |
| 15 | carver | carver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 find | mark |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 find | compound:prt |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 matter | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 matter | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 matter | det |
| 22 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 find | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 kitchen | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 kitchen | det |
| 25 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 matter | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the goose | no sign | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appear | gerund | no sign not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | send | past | goose | goose's head carver | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carver=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find out | to-infinitive | goose not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | the matter | the kitchen | 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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