The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 89
‘No,’ replied the rope; ‘you have left me for many years past to fall to pieces with the damp.
Who acts: you, many years · What happens: reply, leave, past, fall · To what, where: rope, me
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, many years), 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 rope | det |
| 7 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 left | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 left | iobj |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 past | mark |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 years | amod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 past | nsubj |
| 17 | past | past | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 fall | mark |
| 19 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 past | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 pieces | case |
| 21 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fall | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 damp | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 damp | det |
| 24 | damp | damp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pieces | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the rope | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rope=Topic | |||||
| 2 | leave | present · perfect | you | me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | past | present | many years | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fall | to-infinitive | many years not said here | to pieces with the damp | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to piece=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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