The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 85
All through the next day she sat on, giving up even her morning bath for fear that a blast of cold might strike the big egg.
Who acts: duck, blast · What happens: sit on, give up, strike · To what, where: morning bath, big egg
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, blast), 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 | All | all | ADV | _ | 7 sat | advmod |
| 2 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 sat | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 giving | punct |
| 10 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sat | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 giving | compound:prt |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 bath | advmod |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bath | nmod:poss |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bath | compound |
| 15 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 giving | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 fear | case |
| 17 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 giving | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 strike | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 blast | det |
| 20 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 strike | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cold | case |
| 22 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 blast | nmod |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 strike | aux |
| 24 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 giving | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 egg | det |
| 26 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 egg | amod |
| 27 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 strike | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit on | past | duck | day | all property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | give up | gerund | duck not said here | duck's morning bath | for fear | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | strike | might | a blast of cold | the big egg | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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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