The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 256

When he awoke he was horrified, and gave orders to pluck another goose, to stuff it with chestnuts, and put it on the spit.

Who acts: goose · What happens: awake, horrify, give, pluck, stuff, put · To what, where: goose, orders, order, spit

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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 awoke	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 awoke	nsubj
3	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 horrified	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 horrified	aux:pass
6	horrified	horrify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 awoke	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 awoke	conj
10	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gave	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 pluck	mark
12	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 gave	xcomp
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 goose	det
14	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pluck	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stuff	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 stuff	mark
17	stuff	stuff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pluck	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stuff	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 chestnuts	case
20	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stuff	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
23	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pluck	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 spit	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 spit	det
27	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	awake	past	goose				tree rules
2	horrify	past · passive		goose			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	give	past	goose not said here	orders			tree rules
4	pluck	to-infinitive	goose not said here	another goose			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Patient
5	stuff	to-infinitive	goose not said here	order		with chestnuts	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with chestnut=Theme
6	put	infinitive	goose not said here	order	the spit		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on spit=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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