The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 78
A few yards further he saw a huge oven, with a wide, red-hot gaping mouth.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: see · To what, where: huge oven
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 yards | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 yards | amod |
| 3 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 further | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 saw | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 oven | det |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 oven | amod |
| 9 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mouth | punct |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 19 mouth | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mouth | det |
| 13 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mouth | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wide | punct |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mouth | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 red | punct |
| 17 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mouth | amod |
| 18 | gaping | gaping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mouth | compound |
| 19 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Prince | a huge oven | a wide red hot gaping mouth obl; far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oven=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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