The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 108

'I will follow them,' said the duckling to himself; 'ugly though I am, I would rather be killed by them than suffer all I have suffered from cold and hunger, and from the ducks and fowls who should have treated me kindly.'

Who acts: I, syringas · What happens: follow, say, kill, suffer, fowl, treat · To what, where: syringas, duckling, bird, I, all, cold · 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 (I, syringas), 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	_	4 follow	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 follow	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 follow	aux
4	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 follow	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 follow	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 duckling	det
10	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 said	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 ugly	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 ugly	punct
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 follow	conj
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 am	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 am	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ugly	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 killed	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 killed	nsubj:pass
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 killed	aux
22	rather	rather	ADV	_	24 killed	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 killed	aux:pass
24	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 follow	conj
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 killed	obl
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 suffer	mark
28	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 killed	advcl
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 suffer	obj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 suffered	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 suffered	aux
32	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 all	acl:relcl
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 cold	case
34	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 suffered	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 hunger	cc
36	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cold	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 treated	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 treated	cc
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 ducks	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 ducks	det
41	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 treated	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 fowls	cc
43	fowls	fowl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 ducks	conj
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 treated	nsubj:pass
45	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 treated	aux
46	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 treated	aux
47	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 follow	parataxis
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 treated	obj
49	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	47 treated	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 follow	punct
51	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 follow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	future	I	syringas = syringa				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the duckling	bird			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent duckling=Topic to himself=Recipient
3	kill	would · passive	syringas = syringa	I				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	suffer	infinitive	syringas = syringa not said here	all				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus
5	suffer	present · perfect	I			cold and hunger		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	fowl	present						vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	treat	should · perfect · passive		me			from the ducks; kindly property	tree rules

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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