The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 62
It was under these burdocks that a duck had built herself a warm nest, and was not sitting all day on six pretty eggs.
Who acts: family, burdocks · What happens: be, build, not sit · To what, where: burdocks, six pretty eggs
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, burdocks), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 burdocks | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burdocks | cop |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 burdocks | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 burdocks | det |
| 5 | burdocks | burdock | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 built | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 duck | det |
| 8 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 built | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 built | aux |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 burdocks | acl:relcl |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 built | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 nest | det |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nest | amod |
| 14 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 built | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sitting | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sitting | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sitting | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 sitting | advmod |
| 19 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 burdocks | acl |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sitting | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 eggs | case |
| 23 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 eggs | nummod |
| 24 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 eggs | amod |
| 25 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sitting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burdocks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | family | this burdocks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | past · perfect · passive | this burdocks | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not sit | past · progressive | this burdocks not said here | six pretty eggs | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=Location |
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.
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