The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 69
Surely eggs take longer hatching than they did,' she said to herself; and she pined for a little amusement also.
Who acts: eggs, duck · What happens: take, hatch, do, say, pine · To what, where: duck · 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 (eggs, duck), 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 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 3 take | advmod |
| 2 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 take | advmod |
| 5 | hatching | hatch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 take | advcl |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 did | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hatching | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 did | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 pined | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pined | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 pined | nsubj |
| 18 | pined | pine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 amusement | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 amusement | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 amusement | amod |
| 22 | amusement | amusement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pined | obl |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 pined | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | eggs | long, surely property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hatch | gerund | eggs not said here | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | do | past | eggs = egg | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | duck | duck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | pine | past | duck | for a little amusement | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for amusement=Theme |
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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