More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 61

And he seized the black duck by the neck, And slung him all across his back, The black duck cried out "quack, quack, quack," With his legs all dangling down-o!

Who acts: rest, black duck · What happens: seize, sling, cry out, dangle · To what, where: black duck, rest, back, quack

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, black duck), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 seized	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seized	nsubj
3	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 duck	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 duck	amod
6	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 neck	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 neck	det
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slung	punct
11	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 slung	cc
12	slung	sling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slung	obj
14	all	all	ADV	_	17 back	advmod
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 back	nmod:poss
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slung	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cried	punct
19	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 duck	det
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 duck	amod
21	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cried	nsubj
22	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 cried	compound:prt
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 quack	punct
25	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cried	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 quack	punct
27	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 quack	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 quack	punct
29	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 quack	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 legs	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 legs	punct
32	With	with	ADP	_	34 legs	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 legs	nmod:poss
34	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 quack	conj
35	all	all	ADV	_	36 dangling	advmod
36	dangling	dangle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 cried	advcl
37	down	down	ADV	_	36 dangling	advmod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 down	punct
39	o	o	INTJ	_	36 dangling	discourse
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	rest	the black duck		by the neck	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Theme
2	sling	past	rest not said here	rest	rest's back		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	cry out speech: express	past	the black duck	quack and quack and quack and rest's legs			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dangle	gerund	the black duck not said here			all, down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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