The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 64

The duck was always puzzled about that egg, and how it came to be so different from the rest.

Who acts: sixth · What happens: puzzle, come, be · To what, where: duck, rest

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 (sixth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 puzzled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 puzzled	aux:pass
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 puzzled	advmod
5	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 egg	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 egg	det
8	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 puzzled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 puzzled	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	17 different	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 different	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 different	advmod
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 came	advcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 rest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rest	det
20	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 different	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 puzzled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	puzzle	past · passive		the duck		about that egg; always property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	come	past	sixth				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	sixth not said here		the rest	different property	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.

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