The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 265
‘Good-morning, lovely Golden Bird,’ replied the Scullion, whom the Master Cook had forgotten in his excitement to warn.
Who acts: Master Cook, cook · What happens: reply, forget, warn, excite · To what, where: Scullion, excitement
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, cook), 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 | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bird | punct |
| 6 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Bird | amod |
| 7 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Bird | amod |
| 8 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Scullion | det |
| 13 | Scullion | Scullion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 forgotten | punct |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 forgotten | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Cook | det |
| 17 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Cook | compound |
| 18 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 forgotten | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 forgotten | aux |
| 20 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 Scullion | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 excitement | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 excitement | nmod:poss |
| 23 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 forgotten | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 warn | mark |
| 25 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 forgotten | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Scullion | morning | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scullion=Topic | ||||
| 2 | forget | past · perfect | the Master Cook | the Scullion | cook's excitement | tree rules | |||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | to-infinitive | the Master Cook not said here | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | excite | cook | nom excitement «feeling 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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