The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 39
An old man with a white beard was sitting on the doorstep enjoying the fresh air.
Who acts: old man · What happens: sit, enjoy · To what, where: doorstep, fresh air
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 (old man), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 beard | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 beard | det |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beard | amod |
| 7 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sitting | aux |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 doorstep | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 doorstep | det |
| 12 | doorstep | doorstep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | obl |
| 13 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sitting | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 15 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 air | amod |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 enjoying | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | a old man with a white beard | the doorstep | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on doorstep=Location | ||||
| 2 | enjoy | gerund | a old man with a white beard not said here | the fresh air | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus |
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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