The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 283
What a lovely bird!’ said Tubby, and in stroking its head he touched a pin that was sticking between its feathers.
Who acts: lovely bird, head, pin · What happens: say, stroke, touch, stick · To what, where: head, pin, feathers · 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 (lovely bird, head, pin), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 bird | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bird | amod |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 bird | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 bird | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Tubby | Tubby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 touched | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 touched | cc |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 stroking | mark |
| 12 | stroking | stroke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 touched | advcl |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stroking | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 touched | nsubj |
| 16 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pin | det |
| 18 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 touched | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 sticking | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sticking | aux |
| 21 | sticking | stick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 pin | acl:relcl |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 24 feathers | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sticking | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | what lovely bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stroke | gerund | head not said here | Nonsense's head | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | touch | past | head | a pin | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pin=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | stick | past · progressive | a pin | Nonsense's feathers | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme between feather=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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