The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 37
'Catch me the green duck that floats on the water.'
Who acts: you, green duck · What happens: catch, float · To what, where: green duck, me, water
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 (you, green 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Catch | punct |
| 2 | Catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Catch | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 duck | det |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 duck | amod |
| 6 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Catch | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 floats | nsubj |
| 8 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 duck | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 floats | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Catch | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | imperative | you not said here | the green duck | me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary duck=Theme | |||
| 2 | float | present | the green duck | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory |
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/pg3027/31/37/