The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 28

Désiré waited to bid him good-bye until he was quiet again; but as his father went on laughing and showed no signs of stopping, the young man took his hand, kissed it tenderly, opened the door, and in the twinkling of an eye was at the bottom of the staircase.

Who acts: Désiré, father, signs, young man · What happens: wait, bid, be, go, laugh, show · To what, where: Désiré, signs, hand, door, bottom

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 (Désiré, father, signs, young man), 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	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 bid	mark
4	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 waited	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bid	obj
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bye	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
8	bye	bye	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bid	xcomp
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 quiet	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 quiet	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 quiet	cop
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bid	advcl
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 quiet	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 showed	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 showed	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 went	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 showed	advcl
20	on	on	SCONJ	_	21 laughing	mark
21	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 went	advcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 showed	cc
23	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	conj
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 signs	det
25	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 showed	obj
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 stopping	mark
27	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 signs	acl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 took	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 took	nsubj
32	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 showed	parataxis
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hand	nmod:poss
34	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 took	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 kissed	punct
36	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 took	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 kissed	obj
38	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 kissed	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 opened	punct
40	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 took	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 door	det
42	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 opened	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 bottom	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 bottom	cc
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 twinkling	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 twinkling	det
47	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 bottom	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 eye	case
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 eye	det
50	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 twinkling	nmod
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 bottom	cop
52	at	at	ADP	_	54 bottom	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 bottom	det
54	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waited	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 staircase	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 staircase	det
57	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 bottom	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	Désiré					tree rules
2	bid	to-infinitive	Désiré not said here	Désiré			bye property	tree rules
3	is	past	Désiré			again	quiet property	tree rules
4	go	past	Désiré's father					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	laugh	gerund	Désiré's father not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	show	past	Désiré not said here	no signs				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient
7	stop	gerund	no signs not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	take	past	the young man	Désiré's hand				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
9	kiss	past	the young man not said here	hand			tenderly property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
10	open	past	the young man not said here	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
11	is	past			the bottom		in the twinkling of a eye; of the staircase	tree rules

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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