The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 82

'Well, I will give it another chance,' sighed the duck, 'and if it does not come out of its shell in another twenty-four hours, I will just leave it alone and teach the rest of them to swim properly and to find their own food.

Who acts: I, patience, rest · What happens: give, sigh, not come out, leave, teach, swim · To what, where: patience, duck, rest, own food

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, patience, rest), 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	_	6 give	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 give	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	obj
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 chance	det
9	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sighed	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 sighed	punct
12	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 duck	det
14	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sighed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 come	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 come	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 come	advmod
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 give	conj
23	out	out	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 shell	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 shell	nmod:poss
26	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	32 hours	case
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	32 hours	det
29	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 four	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 twenty	punct
31	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 hours	nummod
32	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 shell	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 leave	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 leave	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 leave	aux
36	just	just	ADV	_	37 leave	advmod
37	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 give	parataxis
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 leave	obj
39	alone	alone	ADV	_	37 leave	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 teach	cc
41	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 leave	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 rest	det
43	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 teach	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 rest	nmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 swim	mark
47	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 teach	xcomp
48	properly	properly	ADV	_	47 swim	advmod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 find	cc
50	to	to	PART	_	51 find	mark
51	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 swim	conj
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 food	nmod:poss
53	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 food	amod
54	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 find	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	future	I	patience		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient chance=Theme
2	sigh	past	I not said here	the duck		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Topic
3	not come out a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	patience		of patience's shell in another four hours; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	leave	future	I	patience	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	teach speech: other	infinitive	I not said here	the rest of shells		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent rest=Recipient clause=Topic
6	swim	to-infinitive	the rest of shells not said here		properly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	find	to-infinitive	the rest of shells not said here	shells's own food		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

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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