The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 67

This was the first set of eggs that the duck had ever laid, and, to begin with, she was very pleased and proud, and laughed at the other mothers, who were always neglecting their duties to gossip with each other or to take little extra swims besides the two in the morning and evening that were necessary for health.

Who acts: This, duck, other mothers, little extra, evening · What happens: be, lay, begin, laugh, neglect, gossip · To what, where: first set, duck, duties

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 (This, duck, other mothers, little extra), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 set	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 set	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 set	amod
5	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 eggs	case
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 set	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 laid	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 duck	det
10	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 laid	aux
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 laid	advmod
13	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 eggs	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 begin	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 begin	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 begin	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 begin	mark
18	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 set	parataxis
19	with	with	ADP	_	18 begin	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pleased	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pleased	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pleased	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 pleased	advmod
24	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 begin	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 proud	cc
26	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pleased	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 laughed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 laughed	cc
29	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pleased	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 mothers	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mothers	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 mothers	amod
33	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 laughed	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 neglecting	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 neglecting	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 neglecting	aux
37	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	38 neglecting	advmod
38	neglecting	neglect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 mothers	acl:relcl
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 duties	nmod:poss
40	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 neglecting	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 gossip	mark
42	gossip	gossip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 neglecting	advcl
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 each	case
44	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	42 gossip	obl
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 each	fixed
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 take	cc
47	to	to	PART	_	48 take	mark
48	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 gossip	conj
49	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 extra	amod
50	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 swims	nsubj
51	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 take	ccomp
52	besides	besides	ADP	_	54 two	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 two	det
54	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 swims	obl
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 morning	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 morning	det
57	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 swims	obl
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 evening	cc
59	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 morning	conj
60	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 necessary	nsubj
61	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 necessary	cop
62	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 evening	acl:relcl
63	for	for	ADP	_	64 health	case
64	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 necessary	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	the first set		of eggs	tree rules
2	lay	past · perfect · passive		the duck	ever		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme that=Destination
3	begin	to-infinitive					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is	past	duck			pleased property	tree rules
5	be		duck not said here				tree rules
6	laugh	past	duck not said here			at the other mothers	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	neglect	past · progressive	the other mothers	eggs's duties		always property	vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Theme
8	gossip speech: other	to-infinitive	the other mothers not said here			with each	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with each=Co-Agent
9	take	to-infinitive	the other mothers not said here				vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
10	swim	present	little extra		morning	besides the two	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	is	past	evening			for health; necessary 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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