The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 260

‘As if it wasn’t enough,’ he grumbled between his teeth, ‘that the boy should pick up a hag without a penny, but the goose must go and burn now.

Who acts: goose, boy · What happens: grumble, pick up, go, burn · To what, where: hag

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, boy), 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	_	11 grumbled	punct
2	As	as	SCONJ	_	6 n’t	mark
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 n’t	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 n’t	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 n’t	cop
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 grumbled	advcl
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 n’t	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 n’t	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 n’t	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grumbled	nsubj
11	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	between	between	ADP	_	14 teeth	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 teeth	nmod:poss
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grumbled	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pick	punct
16	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	21 pick	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 pick	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pick	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 pick	aux
21	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 grumbled	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 pick	compound:prt
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hag	det
24	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pick	obj
25	without	without	ADP	_	27 penny	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 penny	det
27	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pick	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 go	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 goose	det
31	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 go	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 go	aux
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 grumbled	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 burn	cc
35	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 go	conj
36	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 burn	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 grumbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	past	goose			between goose's teeth	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pick up	should	the boy	a hag		without a penny	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hag=Topic
3	go	must	the goose				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	burn	infinitive	the goose not said here		now		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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