The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 61

‘The gate will open of itself,’ he continued, ‘and a huge dog which guards the castle will come to you with his mouth wide open, but just throw him this oat cake.

Who acts: gate, man, huge dog · What happens: open, continue, guard, come, throw · To what, where: castle, you, oat cake, man

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 (gate, man, huge dog), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 open	aux
5	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 continued	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 open	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 continued	nsubj
11	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
13	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dog	det
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dog	amod
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	nsubj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 guards	nsubj
19	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dog	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 castle	det
21	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 guards	obj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 continued	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 come	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 mouth	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mouth	nmod:poss
28	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
29	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 open	advmod
30	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 come	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 throw	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 throw	cc
33	just	just	ADV	_	34 throw	advmod
34	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 continued	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 throw	obj
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 cake	det
37	oat	oat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cake	compound
38	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 throw	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	open	future	the gate			of gate	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	continue	past	man				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	guard	present	a huge dog	the castle			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Beneficiary
4	come	future	a huge dog		you	with man's mouth	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
5	throw	infinitive	man not said here	this oat cake	man		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination cake=Theme

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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