The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 73

This encouraged her so much that, after breaking the shells with her bill, so that the little creatures could get free of them, she sat steadily for a whole night upon the nest, and before the sun arose the five white eggs were empty, and ten pairs of eyes were gazing out upon the green world.

Who acts: This, little creatures, duck, sun, five white eggs, ten pairs · What happens: encourage, break, get, sit, arise, be · To what, where: duck, shells, nest

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, little creatures, duck, sun), 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	2 encouraged	nsubj
2	encouraged	encourage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 encouraged	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	2 encouraged	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 much	fixed
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 breaking	punct
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 breaking	mark
9	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 encouraged	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shells	det
11	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 breaking	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 bill	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bill	nmod:poss
14	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 breaking	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 get	punct
16	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 get	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 creatures	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 creatures	amod
20	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 get	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 get	aux
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 breaking	advcl
23	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 get	xcomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 free	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sat	nsubj
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 encouraged	parataxis
29	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	28 sat	advmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 night	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 night	det
32	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 night	amod
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sat	obl
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 nest	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 nest	det
36	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sat	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 arose	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 arose	cc
39	before	before	SCONJ	_	42 arose	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sun	det
41	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 arose	nsubj
42	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sat	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 eggs	det
44	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 eggs	nummod
45	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 eggs	amod
46	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 empty	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 empty	cop
48	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 arose	parataxis
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 gazing	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 gazing	cc
51	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 pairs	nummod
52	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 gazing	nsubj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 eyes	case
54	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 pairs	nmod
55	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 gazing	aux
56	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 encouraged	advcl
57	out	out	ADP	_	56 gazing	compound:prt
58	upon	upon	ADP	_	61 world	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 world	det
60	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 world	amod
61	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 gazing	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 encouraged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	encourage	past	This	duck				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	break	gerund	This not said here	the shells			with duck's bill	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shell=Patient with bill=Instrument
3	get	could	the little creatures				free property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	sit	past	duck		the nest	night	steadily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon nest=Location
5	arise	past	the sun					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	the five white eggs				empty property	tree rules
7	gaze out	past · progressive	ten pairs of eyes				upon the green world	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon world=Theme
8	bill		duck					nom bill «communication 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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