The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 268
In a fury he woke the Scullion, who in order to save himself from blame told the whole story.
Who acts: goose, Scullion · What happens: wake, save, tell · To what, where: fury, goose, blame, whole story · 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 (goose, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 fury | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fury | det |
| 3 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 woke | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 woke | nsubj |
| 5 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Scullion | det |
| 7 | Scullion | Scullion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 told | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 save | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 save | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 save | mark |
| 11 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 in | fixed |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 save | mark |
| 13 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Scullion | parataxis |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 save | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 blame | case |
| 16 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 save | obl |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 woke | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 story | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 story | amod |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | goose | a fury | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | save | to-infinitive | the Scullion | goose | blame | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from blame=Source | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the Scullion | the whole story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
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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