The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 258
The Master Cook himself mounted to the hall to make his excuses, and to beg his lord to have a little patience.
Who acts: goose · What happens: mount, make, beg, have, excuse · To what, where: Master Cook, excuses, lord, little patience
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cook | det |
| 2 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cook | compound |
| 3 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mounted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 mounted | nsubj |
| 5 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 hall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hall | det |
| 8 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mounted | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mounted | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 excuses | nmod:poss |
| 12 | excuses | excuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beg | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 beg | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 beg | mark |
| 16 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 mounted | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lord | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beg | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 have | mark |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 beg | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 patience | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 patience | amod |
| 23 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | participle · passive | the Master Cook | to the hall | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | goose's excuses | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset excuse=Product | |||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | goose's lord | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent lord=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | a little patience | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient | |||||
| 5 | excuse | goose | nom excuse «communication transitive»: poss=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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