The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 277
He had come to see for himself why the goose had never made its appearance.
Who acts: cook · What happens: come, see, not make · To what, where: goose · 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 (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 | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | advcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 see | obl |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 made | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 goose | det |
| 10 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 made | advmod |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 see | ccomp |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | cook | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | cook not said here | for cook | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not make | past · perfect · passive | the goose | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary appearance=Product |
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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