The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 84
And with a fluff of her feathers she pushed the egg into the middle of the nest.
Who acts: duck · What happens: push · To what, where: egg, middle
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pushed | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 fluff | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fluff | det |
| 4 | fluff | fluff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pushed | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 feathers | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fluff | nmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pushed | nsubj |
| 9 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 egg | det |
| 11 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pushed | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 middle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 middle | det |
| 14 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pushed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 nest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 nest | det |
| 17 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 middle | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | duck | the egg | the middle of the nest | with a fluff of duck's feathers | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme into middle=Destination |
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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