The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 71
She had looked at the eggs at least a hundred and fifty times, when, to her joy, she saw a tiny crack on two of them, and scrambling back to the nest she drew the eggs closer the one to the other, and never moved for the whole of that day.
Who acts: duck · What happens: look, see, scramble back, draw, not move, joy · To what, where: tiny crack, two, one, eggs
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | aux |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 eggs | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eggs | det |
| 6 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 least | case |
| 8 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 hundred | nmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hundred | det |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 times | nummod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fifty | cc |
| 12 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hundred | conj |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 when | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 looked | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 joy | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 joy | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 joy | nmod:poss |
| 19 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 crack | det |
| 24 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 crack | amod |
| 25 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 two | case |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 saw | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 two | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 scrambling | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 scrambling | cc |
| 32 | scrambling | scramble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 saw | conj |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 scrambling | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 nest | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 nest | det |
| 36 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 scrambling | obl |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 drew | nsubj |
| 38 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 nest | acl:relcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 eggs | det |
| 40 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 drew | obj |
| 41 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 scrambling | advmod |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 one | det |
| 43 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 scrambling | obj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 other | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 other | det |
| 46 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 one | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 moved | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 moved | cc |
| 49 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 50 moved | advmod |
| 50 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 saw | conj |
| 51 | for | for | ADP | _ | 53 whole | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 whole | det |
| 53 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 moved | obl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 day | case |
| 55 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 56 day | det |
| 56 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 whole | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect | duck | time | at the eggs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at egg=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | duck | a tiny crack | two of eggs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crack=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | scramble back | gerund | duck not said here | the one | to the nest; to the other; close property | vn mix-22.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient to nest=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | draw | past | duck | the eggs | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not move | past | duck not said here | for the whole | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | joy | duck | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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