The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 77
Désiré flung him the oat cake, which the great dog instantly snapped up, and the young Prince passed quietly on.
Who acts: Désiré, great dog, young Prince · What happens: fling, snap up, pass · To what, where: oat cake, Prince
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 (Désiré, great dog, young Prince), 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 | Désiré | Désiré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 flung | nsubj |
| 2 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flung | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cake | det |
| 5 | oat | oat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cake | compound |
| 6 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flung | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 snapped | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 snapped | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dog | amod |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 snapped | nsubj |
| 12 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 13 snapped | advmod |
| 13 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cake | acl:relcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 snapped | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 passed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 passed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Prince | amod |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 passed | nsubj |
| 20 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flung | parataxis |
| 21 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 20 passed | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADV | _ | 20 passed | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | past | Désiré | the oat cake | Prince | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination cake=Theme | |||
| 2 | snap up | past | the great dog | the oat cake | instantly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme | |||
| 3 | pass | past | the young Prince | quietly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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