The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 272
The bird appeared a third time, and said: ‘Good-morning, my fine Cook.’
Who acts: bird · What happens: appear, say · 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 (bird), 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 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 morning | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 morning | punct |
| 12 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 morning | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Good | punct |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Cook | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Cook | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Cook | amod |
| 18 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 morning | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Cook | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 morning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the bird | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the bird not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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