The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 253
‘Good-morning, lovely golden bird,’ replied the chief of the scullions, who had been well brought up.
What happens: reply, bring up · To what, where: chief, scullions
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: 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 | 11 replied | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bird | punct |
| 6 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bird | amod |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bird | amod |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chief | det |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 scullions | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 scullions | det |
| 16 | scullions | scullion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 chief | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brought | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 brought | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 brought | aux:pass |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 brought | advmod |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 scullions | acl:relcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 brought | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the chief of the scullions | morning | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent chief=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring up | past · perfect · passive | the scullions | well property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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