The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 281
‘Your Excellency, it is the bird,’ replied the Scullion, and he placed it in his hand.
Who acts: meaning, Excellency, Avesnes · What happens: be, reply, place · To what, where: bird, Scullion, meaning, hand
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 (meaning, Excellency, Avesnes), 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 | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Excellency | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Excellency | excellency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bird | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bird | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bird | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Excellency | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Excellency | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Scullion | det |
| 13 | Scullion | Scullion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 placed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 placed | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 placed | nsubj |
| 17 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 placed | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | meaning | the bird | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Your Excellency and the bird | the Scullion | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scullion=Topic | ||||
| 3 | place | past | Avesnes | meaning | Avesnes's hand | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Destination |
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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