The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 95
‘Iron gate, iron gate,’ cried the voice, growling like thunder, ‘fall on him and grind him to powder.’
Who acts: Iron gate · What happens: cry, growl, fall, grind, powder · To what, where: voice, dog
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 (Iron gate), 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 | _ | 3 gate | punct |
| 2 | Iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gate | compound |
| 3 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gate | punct |
| 5 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gate | compound |
| 6 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gate | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gate | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 gate | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 growling | punct |
| 13 | growling | growl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 thunder | case |
| 15 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 growling | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fall | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 fall | punct |
| 18 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fall | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 grind | cc |
| 22 | grind | grind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fall | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 grind | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 powder | mark |
| 25 | powder | powder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 grind | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fall | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Iron gate and iron gate | the voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | ||||
| 2 | growl | gerund | Iron gate and iron gate not said here | like thunder | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | on dog | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location | |||||
| 4 | grind | present | dog | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 5 | powder | to-infinitive | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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