The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 23
'Well, you must feel quite at home here,' said the old duck waddling off.
Who acts: you, old duck · What happens: feel, say, waddle off · To what, where: home, old duck · 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 (you, old 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 feel | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 feel | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 feel | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 feel | aux |
| 6 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 feel | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feel | obl |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 feel | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 feel | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 feel | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 duck | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 duck | amod |
| 16 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 17 | waddling | waddle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 duck | acl |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 waddling | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | must | you | home; here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old duck | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | waddle off | gerund | the old duck not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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