The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 3

He ate four meals a day, slept twelve hours out of the twenty-four, and the only thing he ever did was to shoot at small birds with his bow and arrow.

Who acts: King, only thing · What happens: eat, sleep, do, be · To what, where: four meals, twenty four, only thing

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 (King, only thing), 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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 meals	nummod
4	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slept	punct
8	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hours	nummod
10	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slept	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	16 four	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 four	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 four	det
14	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 four	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 twenty	punct
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 slept	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shoot	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 shoot	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thing	det
20	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shoot	nsubj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 did	nsubj
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 did	advmod
24	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thing	acl:relcl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 shoot	cop
26	to	to	PART	_	27 shoot	mark
27	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ate	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 birds	case
29	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 birds	amod
30	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shoot	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 bow	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 bow	nmod:poss
33	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shoot	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 arrow	cc
35	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bow	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	King	four meals		day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
2	sleep	past	King not said here		the twenty four	hour		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	past	King	the only thing not said here		ever		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	is	past	the only thing				at small birds; with King's bow and arrow; shoot property	tree rules

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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