The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 86
‘No,’ replied the baker; ‘a long time has passed since I first began to scour this oven with my own flesh.
Who acts: long time, I · What happens: reply, pass, begin, scour · To what, where: baker, 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 (long time, I), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 baker | det |
| 7 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 passed | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 passed | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 passed | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 passed | aux |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | conj |
| 15 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 18 began | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 began | nsubj |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 began | advmod |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 passed | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 scour | mark |
| 20 | scour | scour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 began | xcomp |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 oven | det |
| 22 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 scour | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 flesh | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 flesh | amod |
| 26 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 scour | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the baker | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent baker=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pass | present · perfect | a long time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | I | first property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | scour | to-infinitive | I not said here | this oven | with my own flesh | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent oven=Source |
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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