The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 13
So saying she put up her feathers, and running to the big duckling bit his neck.
Who acts: running · What happens: say, put up, run, bite · To what, where: feathers, neck · 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 (running), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 put | compound:prt |
| 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 put | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bit | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bit | cc |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 bit | csubj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 duckling | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 duckling | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 duckling | amod |
| 14 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 running | obl |
| 15 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 neck | nmod:poss |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bit | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | put up | past | duck's feathers | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent feather=Goal | |||||
| 3 | run | gerund | to the big duckling result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to duckling=Result | |||||
| 4 | bite | past | running | rest's neck | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=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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