The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 252
‘Good-morning, my fine cook,’ she said in a silvery voice to the man who was watching the roast.
Who acts: bride, man · What happens: say, watch · To what, where: silvery voice, roast · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bride, man), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cook | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cook | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cook | amod |
| 8 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 15 | silvery | silvery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voice | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 man | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 voice | nmod |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 watching | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 watching | aux |
| 22 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 man | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 roast | det |
| 24 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 watching | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | bride | a silvery voice to the man | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner | ||||
| 2 | watch | past · progressive | the man | the roast | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roast=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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