The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 292
And he seated himself solemnly on the oven, and condemned Titty to be burned alive.
Who acts: goose · What happens: seat, condemn, burn · To what, where: goose, oven, Titty
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 (goose), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 seated | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seated | nsubj |
| 3 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 seated | obj |
| 5 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 3 seated | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 oven | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 oven | det |
| 8 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 condemned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 condemned | cc |
| 11 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | conj |
| 12 | Titty | titty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 condemned | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 burned | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 burned | aux:pass |
| 15 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 condemned | advcl |
| 16 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 burned | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past | goose | goose | the oven | solemnly property | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | ||
| 2 | condemn | past | goose not said here | Titty | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent titty=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burn | to-infinitive · passive | goose not said here | alive property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V» |
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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