The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 251
While the goose was turning on the spit, a beautiful little canary hopped on to the sill of the open window.
Who acts: goose · What happens: turn, hop on · To what, where: spit, beautiful little canary, sill
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), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 turning | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goose | det |
| 3 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turning | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turning | aux |
| 5 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 canary | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 spit | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spit | det |
| 8 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turning | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 turning | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 canary | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 canary | amod |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 canary | amod |
| 13 | canary | canary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | hopped | hop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 canary | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 hopped | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 sill | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sill | det |
| 18 | sill | sill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hopped | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 window | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 window | det |
| 21 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 window | amod |
| 22 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sill | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 canary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · progressive | the goose | the spit | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on spit=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | hop on | participle | a beautiful little canary not said here | the sill of the open window | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sill=Destination |
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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