The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 70

Still, she knew that if she left her eggs and the ducklings in them to die none of her friends would ever speak to her again; so there she stayed, only getting off the eggs several times a day to see if the shells were cracking--which may have been the very reason why they did not crack sooner.

Who acts: duck, none, shells, eggs · What happens: know, leave, die, speak, stay, get off · To what, where: eggs, duck, reason · 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, none, shells, eggs), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	4 knew	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 left	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 left	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	ccomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eggs	nmod:poss
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 left	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ducklings	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ducklings	det
13	ducklings	duckling	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eggs	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 die	mark
17	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 left	advcl
18	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	24 speak	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 friends	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 friends	nmod:poss
21	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 none	nmod
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 speak	aux
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 speak	advmod
24	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 die	ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 speak	obl
27	again	again	ADV	_	24 speak	advmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 stayed	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 there	advmod
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 stayed	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 stayed	nsubj
32	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 getting	punct
34	only	only	ADV	_	35 getting	advmod
35	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 stayed	advcl
36	off	off	ADP	_	35 getting	compound:prt
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 eggs	det
38	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 getting	obj
39	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 times	amod
40	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 getting	obl:unmarked
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 day	det
42	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 times	nmod:unmarked
43	to	to	PART	_	44 see	mark
44	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 getting	advcl
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	49 cracking	mark
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 shells	det
47	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 cracking	nsubj
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 cracking	aux
49	cracking	crack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 see	ccomp
50	--	--	PUNCT	_	57 reason	punct
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 reason	nsubj
52	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 reason	aux
53	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 reason	aux
54	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	57 reason	cop
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 reason	det
56	very	very	ADV	_	57 reason	advmod
57	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 cracking	parataxis
58	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	62 crack	advmod
59	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 crack	nsubj
60	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 crack	aux
61	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	62 crack	advmod
62	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 reason	acl
63	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	62 crack	advmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	duck				still		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	leave a condition, not said to happen	past	duck	duck's eggs and the ducklings				in eggs = egg	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in they=Location
3	die	to-infinitive	duck not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	speak speech: other	would	none		duck		ever; again		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
5	stay	past	duck			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	get off	gerund	duck not said here	the eggs			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Stimulus
7	see	to-infinitive	duck not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	crack a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	the shells						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is a	may · perfect		the reason					tree rules
10	not crack	past · do-support	eggs = egg					soon property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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