The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 298
And this is why to-day the country boys always throw stones at a titmouse.
Who acts: this, country boys · What happens: be, throw · To what, where: stones, titmouse
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 (this, country boys), 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 | _ | 4 why | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 why | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 why | cop |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 to | punct |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 throw | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boys | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boys | compound |
| 10 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 throw | nsubj |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 throw | advmod |
| 12 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 why | advcl:relcl |
| 13 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 throw | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 titmouse | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 titmouse | det |
| 16 | titmouse | titmouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 throw | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw | present | the country boys | stones | a titmouse | day | always property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at titmouse=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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