The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 111
And directly they saw him coming some of the younger ones swam out to meet him with cries of welcome, which again the duckling hardly understood.
Who acts: syringas, some, welcome · What happens: see, come, swim out, meet, understand, cry · To what, where: bird
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 (syringas, some, welcome), 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 | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 swam | ccomp |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 swam | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ones | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ones | det |
| 10 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 ones | amod |
| 11 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 some | nmod |
| 12 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 swam | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 meet | mark |
| 15 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 swam | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 meet | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 cries | case |
| 18 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 meet | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 welcome | case |
| 20 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cries | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 understood | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 understood | nsubj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 understood | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 duckling | det |
| 25 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 understood | nsubj |
| 26 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 27 understood | advmod |
| 27 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 welcome | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | syringas = syringa | bird | directly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | some not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | swim out | past | some | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | some not said here | bird | with cries of welcome | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme with cry=Instrument | |||
| 5 | understand | past | welcome | again | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | cry | welcome | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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