The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 74

Now the duck had been carefully brought up, and did not like dirt, and, besides, broken shells are not at all comfortable things to sit or walk upon; so she pushed the rest out over the side, and felt delighted to have some company to talk to till the big egg hatched.

Who acts: broken shells, duck · What happens: bring up, not like, break, not be, sit, walk · To what, where: duck, dirt, comfortable things, rest, side, company

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 (broken shells, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 brought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duck	det
3	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brought	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 brought	aux:pass
6	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	7 brought	advmod
7	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 brought	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 like	cc
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 like	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 like	advmod
13	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 brought	advcl
14	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 like	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 besides	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 besides	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 besides	punct
18	besides	besides	INTJ	_	13 like	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 things	punct
20	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 shells	amod
21	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 things	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 things	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 things	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	27 things	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 things	det
26	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 things	amod
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 besides	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 sit	mark
29	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 things	acl
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 walk	cc
31	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 sit	conj
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 walk	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 pushed	punct
34	so	so	ADV	_	36 pushed	advmod
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 pushed	nsubj
36	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brought	parataxis
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 rest	det
38	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pushed	obj
39	out	out	ADV	_	36 pushed	advmod
40	over	over	ADP	_	42 side	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 side	det
42	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pushed	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 felt	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 felt	cc
45	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 pushed	conj
46	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 felt	xcomp
47	to	to	PART	_	48 have	mark
48	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 felt	xcomp
49	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	50 company	det
50	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 have	obj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 talk	mark
52	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 company	acl
53	to	to	ADP	_	52 talk	obl
54	till	till	ADP	_	57 egg	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 egg	det
56	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 egg	amod
57	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 talk	obl
58	hatched	hatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 egg	acl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring up	past · perfect · passive		the duck		now	carefully property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	not like	past · do-support		dirt				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dirt=Theme
3	break	participle						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	not is	present	broken shells		all comfortable things			tree rules
5	sit	to-infinitive						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	walk	infinitive						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	push out	past	duck	the rest	the side		out property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent rest=Theme over side=Trajectory
8	feel	past	duck not said here				delighted property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	have	to-infinitive	duck not said here	some company				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient
10	talk	to-infinitive	duck not said here	some company not said here		till the big egg		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	hatch	participle		the big egg not said here				vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

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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