The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 66

But ducks are not clever at all, and are not quick at counting, so this duck did not worry herself about the matter, but just took care that the big egg should be as warm as the rest.

Who acts: ducks, duck, big egg · What happens: not be, count, not worry, take, be · To what, where: all, duck, care

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 (ducks, duck, big egg), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 clever	cc
2	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clever	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 clever	advmod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 clever	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 quick	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 quick	cc
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 quick	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 quick	advmod
12	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clever	conj
13	at	at	SCONJ	_	14 counting	mark
14	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 quick	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 worry	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	21 worry	advmod
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 duck	det
18	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 worry	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 worry	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 worry	advmod
21	worry	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 counting	parataxis
22	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 worry	obj
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 matter	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 matter	det
25	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 worry	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 took	advmod
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	parataxis
30	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 warm	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 egg	det
33	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 egg	amod
34	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 warm	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 warm	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 warm	cop
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 warm	advmod
38	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 took	advcl
39	as	as	ADP	_	41 rest	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 rest	det
41	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 warm	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	ducks		all	clever property	tree rules
2	not is	present	ducks not said here			quick property	tree rules
3	count	gerund	ducks not said here				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	not worry	past · do-support	this duck	duck		about the matter	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
5	take	past		care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
6	is	should	the big egg			as the rest; warm 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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