The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 18
And though the duckling did not understand the meaning of the words, he felt he was being blamed, and became more uncomfortable still when the old Spanish duck who ruled the fowlyard struck in:
Who acts: duckling, rest, old Spanish duck · What happens: not understand, feel, blame, become, rule, strike in · To what, where: meaning, rest, fowlyard, words
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, rest, old Spanish duck), 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 | _ | 15 felt | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 understand | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 duckling | det |
| 4 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 understand | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 understand | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 understand | advmod |
| 7 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 felt | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meaning | det |
| 9 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 understand | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 words | det |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 meaning | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 understand | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 blamed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 blamed | aux:pass |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 blamed | aux:pass |
| 19 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 felt | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 became | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 became | cc |
| 22 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 felt | conj |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 24 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 became | xcomp |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 uncomfortable | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 duck | det |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 duck | amod |
| 29 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 duck | amod |
| 30 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 when | nsubj |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 ruled | nsubj |
| 32 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 duck | acl:relcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 fowlyard | det |
| 34 | fowlyard | fowlyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ruled | obj |
| 35 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 ruled | xcomp |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 struck | compound:prt |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | past · do-support | the duckling | the meaning of the words | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | rest | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | blame | past · passive | rest | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | become | past | rest not said here | uncomfortable property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | rule | past | the old Spanish duck | the fowlyard | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | strike in | participle | the old Spanish duck not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | mean | the words | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=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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