The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 297
Zizi obtained Titty’s pardon, and she was sent back to the brick-fields, followed and hooted at by all the boys.
Who acts: Zizi, Titty · What happens: obtain, send back, follow, hoot, pardon · To what, where: pardon, 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 (Zizi, Titty), 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 | Zizi | Zizi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 obtained | nsubj |
| 2 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Titty | Titty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Titty | case |
| 5 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 obtained | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sent | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sent | aux:pass |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 obtained | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 sent | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 fields | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fields | det |
| 14 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fields | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 brick | punct |
| 16 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 back | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 followed | punct |
| 18 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sent | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hooted | cc |
| 20 | hooted | hoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 followed | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 hooted | obl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 boys | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 boys | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 boys | det |
| 25 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hooted | obl:agent |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 obtained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | past | Zizi | Titty's pardon | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pardon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send back | past · passive | Zizi | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | follow | participle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | hoot | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | pardon | Titty | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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