The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 14
The duckling gave a loud quack; it was the first time he had felt any pain, and at the sound his mother turned quickly.
Who acts: duckling, mother · What happens: give, feel, turn · To what, where: loud quack, duckling, sound
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, mother), 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 | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 quack | det |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 quack | amod |
| 6 | quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 felt | aux:pass |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 felt | aux |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gave | advcl |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 pain | det |
| 17 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turned | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 turned | cc |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 sound | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sound | det |
| 22 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | obl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | nsubj |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 26 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 25 turned | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the duckling | a loud quack | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quack=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past · perfect · passive | duckling | time | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme pain=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | rest's mother | the sound | quickly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at sound=Trajectory |
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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