The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 263

While the Master Cook was upstairs, the golden bird came again to perch on the window-sill, and called in his clear voice to the head scullion, who was watching the spit:

Who acts: Master Cook, golden bird, head scullion · What happens: be, come, call, watch · To what, where: perch, clear voice, spit · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Master Cook, golden bird, head scullion), 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	_	6 upstairs	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cook	det
3	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Cook	compound
4	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 upstairs	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 upstairs	cop
6	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	11 came	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 upstairs	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 perch	case
14	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	19 sill	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sill	det
17	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sill	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 window	punct
19	sill	sill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 perch	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 called	cc
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 came	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 voice	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 voice	nmod:poss
25	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 voice	amod
26	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 scullion	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 scullion	det
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 scullion	compound
30	scullion	scullion	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 voice	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 watching	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 watching	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 watching	aux
34	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 scullion	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 spit	det
36	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 watching	obj
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Master Cook				upstairs property	tree rules
2	come	past	the golden bird		perch on the window sill	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to perch=Initial_Location
3	call	participle	the golden bird not said here		cook's clear voice to the head scullion			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	watch	past · progressive	the head scullion	the spit				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spit=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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