The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 76

'I can't think what is the matter with it,' the duck grumbled to her neighbour who had called in to pay her a visit. '

Who acts: I, matter, duck · What happens: not think, be, grumble, call in, pay · To what, where: neighbour, duck

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 (I, matter, 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 think	obj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 matter	det
9	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 matter	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grumbled	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 grumbled	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 duck	det
15	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grumbled	nsubj
16	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 neighbour	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 neighbour	nmod:poss
19	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grumbled	obl
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 called	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 called	aux
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 neighbour	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	22 called	compound:prt
24	to	to	PART	_	25 pay	mark
25	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 called	advcl
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pay	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 visit	det
28	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pay	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not think speech: other	can	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the matter with cracking			tree rules
3	grumble speech: other	past	the duck		duck's neighbour	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to neighbour=Recipient
4	call in speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		duck's neighbour		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	pay	to-infinitive			duck	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient visit=Asset

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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