The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 271

He spitted a third goose, lit a huge fire, and seated himself by it.

Who acts: cook · What happens: spit, light, seat · To what, where: third goose, huge fire, cook

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spitted	nsubj
2	spitted	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 goose	det
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 goose	amod
5	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spitted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lit	punct
7	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spitted	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fire	det
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fire	amod
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lit	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seated	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seated	cc
13	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spitted	conj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 seated	obj
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seated	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spit	past	cook	a third goose		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goose=Theme
2	light	past	cook not said here	a huge fire		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
3	seat	past	cook not said here	cook	by story	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value

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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