The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 85

‘Baker, baker, take him by his feet, and throw him into the oven!’

Who acts: you · What happens: take, throw · To what, where: Baker, Désiré, 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 (you), 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	_	6 take	punct
2	Baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 baker	punct
4	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Baker	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Baker	punct
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 feet	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 throw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 throw	cc
13	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 take	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 throw	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 oven	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 oven	det
17	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	Baker and baker				by Désiré's feet	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	throw	infinitive	you not said here	Désiré				into the oven result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into oven=Result

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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