More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 71

But soon came Duckie and with her Sir Drake; Duckie takes Puddock and makes him squeak.

Who acts: Duckie, Puddock · What happens: come, take, make, squeak · To what, where: Duckie, Puddock

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duckie, Puddock), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 came	cc
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Duckie	Duckie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Sir	cc
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 Sir	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Sir	nmod:poss
8	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Duckie	conj
9	Drake	Drake	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Sir	flat
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 takes	punct
11	Duckie	Duckie	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 takes	nsubj
12	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
13	Puddock	Puddock	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 takes	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 makes	cc
15	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 takes	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 makes	obj
17	squeak	squeak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 makes	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past		Duckie and bride's Sir		soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location duckie=Theme
2	take	present	Duckie		Puddock		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument puddock=Destination
3	make	present	Duckie not said here	Puddock			tree rules
4	squeak	infinitive	Puddock not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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