The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 96
‘No,’ replied the gate; ‘it is a hundred years since you left me to rust, and he has oiled me.
Who acts: voice, you, dog · What happens: reply, be, leave, rust, oil · To what, where: gate, hundred years, 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 (voice, you, dog), 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 gate | det |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 years | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 years | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 years | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 years | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 years | det |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 replied | obl |
| 15 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 17 left | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 left | nsubj |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | advcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 left | iobj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 rust | mark |
| 20 | rust | rust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 left | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 oiled | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 oiled | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 oiled | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 oiled | aux |
| 25 | oiled | oil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 oiled | obj |
| 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 gate | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gate=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | voice | a hundred years | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | you | me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rust | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | oil | present · perfect | dog | me | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Destination |
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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