The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 27

The Lord of Avesnes was so much astonished that he let his pipe fall to the ground; then he became so diverted at the notion of his son marrying a yellow woman, and a woman shut up inside an orange, that he burst into fits of laughter.

Who acts: Lord, Avesnes, son, woman · What happens: be, let, become, divert, marry, shut up · To what, where: pipe fall, ground, notion, yellow woman, orange, fits

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 (Lord, Avesnes, son, woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Lord	det
2	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 astonished	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Avesnes	case
4	Avesnes	Avesnes	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Lord	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 astonished	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 astonished	advmod
8	astonished	astonish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 let	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	nsubj
11	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 astonished	ccomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fall	nmod:poss
13	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fall	compound
14	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 let	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 ground	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fall	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 became	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 became	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 became	nsubj
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 astonished	conj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 diverted	advmod
23	diverted	divert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 became	xcomp
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 notion	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 notion	det
26	notion	notion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 diverted	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 son	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 son	nmod:poss
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 notion	nmod
30	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 son	acl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 woman	det
32	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 woman	amod
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 marrying	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 shut	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 shut	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 woman	det
37	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shut	nsubj
38	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 became	conj
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 shut	compound:prt
40	inside	inside	ADP	_	42 orange	case
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 orange	det
42	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shut	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 burst	punct
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 burst	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 burst	nsubj
46	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 became	conj
47	into	into	ADP	_	48 fits	case
48	fits	fit	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 burst	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 laughter	case
50	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fits	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Lord of Avesnes					astonish property	tree rules
2	let	past	Avesnes	Avesnes's pipe fall	the ground				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fall=Theme to ground=Recipient
3	become	past	Avesnes				then		tree rules
4	divert	participle	Avesnes not said here			the notion of Avesnes's son			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	marry	gerund	Avesnes's son not said here	a yellow woman					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient
6	shut up	participle	a woman			a orange			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	burst	past	Avesnes			fits of laughter			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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