The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 68
I can’t send it up to the royal table;’ and opening the window he threw Medio Pollito out into the street.
Who acts: I, cook · What happens: not send up, open, throw out · To what, where: broth, royal table, window, Medio, street
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, cook), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 send | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 send | advmod |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 send | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 send | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 table | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 table | det |
| 9 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 table | amod |
| 10 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 threw | cc |
| 14 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 threw | csubj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 window | det |
| 16 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 opening | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 threw | nsubj |
| 18 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | conj |
| 19 | Medio | Medio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 threw | obj |
| 20 | Pollito | Pollito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Medio | flat |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 threw | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 street | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 street | det |
| 24 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 threw | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not send up | can | I | broth | the royal table | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to table=Destination | |||
| 2 | open | gerund | the window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | |||||
| 3 | throw out | past | cook | Medio | into the street result; out property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer medio=Theme into street=Result |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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