The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 81
Then he went on to the well, drew up the cord, which was half rotten, and stretched it out in the sun.
Who acts: Désiré, cord · What happens: go on, draw up, be, stretch out · To what, where: cord
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, cord), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 well | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 well | det |
| 7 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drew | punct |
| 9 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 drew | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cord | det |
| 12 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rotten | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 rotten | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rotten | cop |
| 16 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 17 rotten | advmod |
| 17 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cord | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stretched | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stretched | cc |
| 20 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stretched | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 stretched | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 sun. | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sun. | det |
| 25 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stretched | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Désiré | then | to the well | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | draw up | past | Désiré not said here | the cord | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the cord | half, rotten property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stretch out | past | Désiré not said here | cord | in the sun. | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in sun.=Topic |
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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