The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 13
On the lake that leads to the land of the Sun floats a duck whose body is green and whose neck is of gold.
Who acts: lake, duck, neck · What happens: lead, float, be
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lake, duck, neck), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 lake | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lake | det |
| 3 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 floats | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 leads | nsubj |
| 5 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lake | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leads | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Sun | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sun | det |
| 11 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 land | nmod |
| 12 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 duck | det |
| 14 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 green | nsubj |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 body | nmod:poss |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 green | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 green | cop |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 floats | ccomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gold | cc |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 21 neck | nmod:poss |
| 21 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gold | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 gold | cop |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gold | case |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 green | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 floats | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present | the lake | to the land of the Sun | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to land=Patient | ||||
| 2 | float | present | the lake | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | a duck | green property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | gold's neck | of gold | tree rules |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/31/13/