The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 90
He has stretched me out in the sun. Let him go in peace.’
Who acts: Désiré · What happens: stretch out, let, go · To what, where: Désiré, sun., peace
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stretched | aux |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stretched | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stretched | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sun. | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun. | det |
| 8 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obl |
| 9 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stretched | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 Let | obj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Let | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 peace | case |
| 13 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretched | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | present · perfect · passive | Désiré | the sun. | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient i=Result | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Désiré | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | Désiré not said here | peace | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |
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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