The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 42
The traveller entered, and his host put before him a simple meal.
Who acts: traveller, host · What happens: enter, put · To what, where: simple meal
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 (traveller, host), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 traveller | det |
| 2 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 put | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 host | nmod:poss |
| 7 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | nsubj:outer |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 entered | conj |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 meal | det |
| 12 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 meal | amod |
| 13 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the traveller | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put | participle | traveller's host | a simple meal | before traveller | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meal=Theme before he=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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