The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 284
He pulled it out, and lo! the Canary at once became a beautiful girl with a golden skin who jumped lightly to the ground.
Who acts: head, golden skin · What happens: pull out, become, jump · To what, where: pin, beautiful girl
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 (head, golden skin), 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 | 2 pulled | nsubj |
| 2 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pulled | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 pulled | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Canary | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Canary | cc |
| 7 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 10 Canary | discourse |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 lo | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Canary | det |
| 10 | Canary | canary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pulled | parataxis |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 13 became | mark |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 became | advmod |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Canary | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 girl | amod |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 skin | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 skin | det |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 skin | amod |
| 20 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 girl | nmod |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 jumped | nsubj |
| 22 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 skin | acl:relcl |
| 23 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 22 jumped | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 jumped | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | past | head | pin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | past | head not said here | a beautiful girl with a golden skin | once property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | jump | past | a golden skin | to the ground result; lightly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ground=Result |
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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