The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 293
After which the lords and cooks formed themselves in lines, and Tubby betrothed Désiré to Zizi.
Who acts: lords, Tubby · What happens: form, betroth · To what, where: lords, lines, Désiré, Zizi
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 (lords, Tubby), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 formed | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lords | det |
| 4 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 formed | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cooks | cc |
| 6 | cooks | cook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lords | conj |
| 7 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 formed | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 lines | case |
| 10 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 formed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 betrothed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 betrothed | cc |
| 13 | Tubby | Tubby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 betrothed | nsubj |
| 14 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 formed | conj |
| 15 | Désiré | Désiré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 betrothed | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Zizi | case |
| 17 | Zizi | Zizi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 betrothed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past | the lords and cooks | lords = lord | lines | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme | |||
| 2 | betroth | past | Tubby | Désiré | Zizi | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent désiré=Theme to zizi=Recipient |
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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