The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 25

I gathered one of them, and when I opened it there came out a lovely princess with a golden skin.

Who acts: I · What happens: gather, open, come out · To what, where: one, pipe, lovely princess

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 gathered	nsubj
2	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 gathered	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 one	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 opened	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 opened	nsubj
10	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 opened	obj
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 opened	advmod
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gathered	conj
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 princess	det
16	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 princess	amod
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 skin	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 skin	det
20	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 skin	amod
21	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 princess	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	past	I	one of woods			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	open	past	I	pipe	there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	come out	past	I not said here	a lovely princess with a golden skin		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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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