The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 65

Other birds might have thought that when the duck went down in the morning and evening to the water to stretch her legs in a good swim, some lazy mother might have been on the watch, and have popped her egg into the nest.

Who acts: duck, lazy mother · What happens: think, go down, stretch, be, pop · To what, where: Other birds, legs, watch, egg, nest · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (duck, lazy mother), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thought	nsubj:pass
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	aux
5	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 went	mark
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 went	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 duck	det
9	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	ccomp
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 morning	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 morning	det
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 evening	cc
16	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 morning	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 water	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 water	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 stretch	mark
21	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 went	advcl
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 legs	nmod:poss
23	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stretch	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 swim	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 swim	det
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 swim	amod
27	swim	swim	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stretch	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 watch	punct
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 mother	det
30	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mother	amod
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 watch	nsubj
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 watch	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 watch	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 watch	cop
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 watch	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 watch	det
37	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 swim	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 popped	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 popped	cc
40	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 popped	aux
41	popped	pop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 thought	conj
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 egg	nmod:poss
43	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 popped	obj
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 nest	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 nest	det
46	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 popped	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	might · perfect · passive		Other birds				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	go down	past	the duck			morning	to the water; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	stretch	to-infinitive	the duck not said here	duck's legs			in a good swim and the watch	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=Patient in swim=Topic
4	is	might · perfect	some lazy mother		the watch			tree rules
5	pop	present · perfect		duck's egg			into the nest result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent egg=Patient into nest=Result

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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