The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 7
Instead of chatting with them in the dusk, he wandered about the woods, whispering to the moon.
Who acts: King · What happens: chat, wander, whisper · To what, where: moon
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), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 3 chatting | mark |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Instead | fixed |
| 3 | chatting | chat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wandered | advcl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chatting | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dusk | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dusk | det |
| 8 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chatting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 chatting | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wandered | nsubj |
| 11 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 woods | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woods | det |
| 14 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wandered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whispering | punct |
| 16 | whispering | whisper | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wandered | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 moon | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 moon | det |
| 19 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 whispering | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chat speech: other | gerund | King not said here | dusk | with ladies = lady | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | wander | past | King | about the woods | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about wood=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | gerund | King not said here | the moon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to moon=Recipient |
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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