More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 65
But at last he arrived at his home again, To his dear little foxes, eight, nine, ten, Says he "You're in luck, here's a fine fat duck With his legs all dangling down-o!"
Who acts: man, fine fat duck · What happens: arrive, say, be, dangle · To what, where: last, luck, fine fat duck · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, fine fat 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Says | advcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 home | nmod:poss |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 foxes | punct |
| 11 | To | to | ADP | _ | 15 foxes | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 foxes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 foxes | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 foxes | amod |
| 15 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arrived | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eight | punct |
| 17 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 foxes | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 nine | punct |
| 19 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 eight | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ten | punct |
| 21 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 eight | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Says | punct |
| 23 | Says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 luck | nsubj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 luck | punct |
| 26 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 luck | nsubj |
| 27 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 luck | cop |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 luck | case |
| 29 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Says | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 here | punct |
| 31 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 duck | advmod |
| 32 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 duck | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 duck | det |
| 34 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 duck | amod |
| 35 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 duck | compound |
| 36 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 luck | parataxis |
| 37 | With | with | ADP | _ | 39 legs | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 legs | nmod:poss |
| 39 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 duck | nmod |
| 40 | all | all | ADV | _ | 41 dangling | advmod |
| 41 | dangling | dangle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 duck | acl |
| 42 | down | down | ADP | _ | 44 o | case |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 down | punct |
| 44 | o | o | NOUN | _ | 41 dangling | obl |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 36 duck | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 luck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | man | last | again | at man's home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | man | luck | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | a fine fat duck | here | with man's legs | tree rules | |||
| 5 | dangle in a quote | gerund | a fine fat duck not said here | down o; all 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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