The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 92
‘No,’ replied the dog; ‘though I have served you long, you never gave me any bread.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: reply, serve, not give · To what, where: dog, you, bread, 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 (I, 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 | _ | 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 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 served | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 served | punct |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 served | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 served | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 served | aux |
| 13 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 served | obj |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 served | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 gave | advmod |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 served | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 bread | det |
| 22 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the dog | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dog=Topic | |||||
| 2 | serve | present · perfect | I | you | long property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute | |||
| 3 | not give | past | you | any bread | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bread=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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