The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 75

But day after day went on, and the big egg showed no signs of cracking, and the duck grew more and more impatient, and began to wish to consult her husband, who never came.

Who acts: big egg, duck, husband · What happens: go on, show, grow, begin, wish, consult · To what, where: signs, husband, cracking

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 (big egg, duck, husband), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 day	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 showed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 showed	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 egg	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 egg	amod
11	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 showed	nsubj
12	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 signs	det
14	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 showed	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 cracking	case
16	cracking	cracking	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 signs	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 grew	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 duck	det
20	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grew	nsubj
21	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 showed	conj
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 grew	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 impatient	cc
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 impatient	advmod
25	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 more	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 began	cc
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 grew	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 wish	mark
30	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 consult	mark
32	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wish	xcomp
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 husband	nmod:poss
34	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 consult	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 came	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 came	nsubj
37	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 came	advmod
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 husband	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	go on	past			day	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show	past	the big egg	no signs of cracking		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient
3	grow	past	the duck			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	the duck not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	wish	to-infinitive	the duck not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	consult not said to happen	to-infinitive	the duck not said here	duck's husband		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme
7	not come	past	duck's husband			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sign			cracking		nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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