The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 273
‘Good-morning, lovely Golden Bird,’ replied the Cook, as if nothing had happened, and at the moment that the Canary was beginning, ‘I pray Heaven that it may send,’ a scullion who was hidden outside rushed out and shut the shutters.
Who acts: nothing, Canary, I · What happens: reply, happen, begin, pray, send, ' · To what, where: Cook, moment, Heaven, scullion, shutters
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 (nothing, Canary, I), 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 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bird | punct |
| 6 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Bird | amod |
| 7 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Bird | amod |
| 8 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Cook | det |
| 13 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 happened | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 happened | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 happened | mark |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 happened | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 happened | aux |
| 19 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 replied | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pray | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 pray | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 moment | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 moment | det |
| 24 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pray | obl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 beginning | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Canary | det |
| 27 | Canary | Canary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 beginning | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 beginning | aux |
| 29 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 moment | acl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 moment | punct |
| 31 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 moment | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 pray | nsubj |
| 33 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 happened | conj |
| 34 | Heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pray | obj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 send | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 send | nsubj |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 send | aux |
| 38 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 pray | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 ’ | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 send | conj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 scullion | det |
| 42 | scullion | scullion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ’ | obj |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 hidden | aux:pass |
| 45 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 scullion | acl:relcl |
| 46 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 47 rushed | advmod |
| 47 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 hidden | advcl |
| 48 | out | out | ADP | _ | 47 rushed | compound:prt |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 shut | cc |
| 50 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 send | conj |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 shutters | det |
| 52 | shutters | shutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 shut | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Cook | morning | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cook=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past · progressive | the Canary | the moment not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moment=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | pray | present | I | Heaven | moment | tree rules | |||
| 5 | send | may | canary | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | ' | infinitive | canary not said here | a scullion | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hide | past · passive | a scullion | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 8 | rush out | participle | outside property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | shut | infinitive | canary not said here | the shutters | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shutter=Patient |
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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