The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 257
While it was browning at the fire, Tubby inquired for his goose a second time.
Who acts: chief, Tubby · What happens: brown, inquire · To what, where: fire
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, Tubby), 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 | _ | 4 browning | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 browning | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 browning | aux |
| 4 | browning | brown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 inquired | advcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 fire | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fire | det |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 browning | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 browning | punct |
| 9 | Tubby | Tubby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 inquired | nsubj |
| 10 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 goose | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 goose | nmod:poss |
| 13 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inquired | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inquired | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brown | past · progressive | chief | the fire | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Tubby | time | for goose's goose | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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