The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 105

The duckling was almost sorry when he drew near the pink cloud and found it was made up of apple blossoms growing beside a cottage whose garden ran down to the banks of the canal.

Who acts: duckling, bird, apple blossoms, garden · What happens: be, draw, find, make up, grow, run down · To what, where: pink cloud, cloud, cottage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duckling, bird, apple blossoms, garden), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duckling	det
2	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sorry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sorry	cop
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 sorry	advmod
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 drew	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drew	nsubj
8	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sorry	advcl
9	near	near	ADP	_	12 cloud	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cloud	det
11	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cloud	amod
12	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drew	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drew	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 made	aux:pass
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 found	ccomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 made	compound:prt
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 blossoms	case
20	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blossoms	compound
21	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	obl
22	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 blossoms	acl
23	beside	beside	ADP	_	25 cottage	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cottage	det
25	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 growing	obl
26	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	27 garden	nmod:poss
27	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ran	nsubj
28	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cottage	acl:relcl
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 ran	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 banks	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 banks	det
32	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 ran	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 canal	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 canal	det
35	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 banks	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sorry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the duckling			almost, sorry property	tree rules
2	draw	past	bird		the pink cloud		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	bird not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	make up	past · passive		cloud		of apple blossoms	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
5	grow	gerund	apple blossoms not said here		a cottage		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside cottage=Location
6	run down	past	garden			to the banks of the canal result; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to bank=Result

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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