The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 276

At length one of them caught it just at the very moment that Tubby entered the kitchen, waving his sceptre.

Who acts: Tubby · What happens: catch, enter, wave · To what, where: length, kitchen, sceptre

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 (Tubby), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	obl
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 length	flat
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 one	nmod
6	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 caught	obj
8	just	just	ADV	_	12 moment	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 moment	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moment	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 moment	advmod
12	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 entered	mark
14	Tubby	Tubby	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 entered	nsubj
15	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 moment	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 kitchen	det
17	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 entered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 waving	punct
19	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 caught	advcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sceptre	nmod:poss
21	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 waving	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	catch	past		length	length	moment	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at length=Asset
2	enter	past	Tubby	the kitchen			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kitchen=Destination
3	wave	gerund		cook's sceptre			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sceptre=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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