The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 278

The Scullion stopped at once, just as he was about to wring the Canary’s neck.

Who acts: Scullion, cook · What happens: stop, be, wring · To what, where: neck

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 (Scullion, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Scullion	det
2	Scullion	Scullion	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 stopped	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 about	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	11 about	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 about	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 about	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 about	cop
11	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stopped	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 wring	mark
13	wring	wring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 about	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Canary	det
15	Canary	Canary	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 neck	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Canary	case
17	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wring	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the Scullion			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	is	past	cook		about property	tree rules
3	wring	to-infinitive	cook not said here	the Canary's neck		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=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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