The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 255
And instantly the chief of the scullions fell fast asleep, and the goose was burnt to a cinder.
Who acts: chief · What happens: fall, burnt · To what, where: goose
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 (chief), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fell | cc |
| 2 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 chief | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 scullions | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 scullions | det |
| 7 | scullions | scullion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 chief | nmod |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 fell | advmod |
| 10 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fell | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 burnt | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 burnt | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 goose | det |
| 14 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 burnt | aux:pass |
| 16 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fell | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 cinder | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cinder | det |
| 19 | cinder | cinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 burnt | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the chief of the scullions | asleep, fast property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burnt | past · passive | the goose | to a cinder | 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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