The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 269
‘That accursed bird,’ said the Cook; ‘it will end by getting me sent away.
Who acts: Cook, story · What happens: accurs, say, end, get, send away · To what, where: me · 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 (Cook, story), 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 bird | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 bird | det |
| 3 | accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bird | amod |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bird | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Cook | det |
| 9 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 end | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 end | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 end | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 end | aux |
| 14 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 getting | mark |
| 16 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 end | advcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 getting | iobj |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 getting | xcomp |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 sent | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accurs | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Cook | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | end | future | story | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get | gerund | story not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | send away | participle | story not said here | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=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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