The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 267

And the Scullion fell fast asleep, and when the Master Cook came back he found the goose as black as the chimney.

Who acts: Scullion, Master Cook, cook · What happens: fall, come back, find · To what, where: goose

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 (Scullion, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 fell	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Scullion	det
3	Scullion	Scullion	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fell	advmod
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Cook	det
11	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Cook	compound
12	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 found	advcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 goose	det
18	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obj
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 black	case
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 found	xcomp
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 chimney	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 chimney	det
23	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 black	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the Scullion		asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back	past	the Master Cook			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	cook	the goose	black property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Topic

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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