The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 24
And so they did, all except the duckling, who was snapped at by everyone when they thought his mother was not looking.
Who acts: bodies, mother · What happens: do, snap, think, not look · To what, where: all, duckling, everyone · 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 (bodies, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 all | punct |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | except | except | ADP | _ | 9 duckling | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 duckling | det |
| 9 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 snapped | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 snapped | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 snapped | aux:pass |
| 13 | snapped | snap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 duckling | acl:relcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 everyone | case |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 everyone | case |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 snapped | obl |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 thought | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 snapped | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 looking | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 looking | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 looking | advmod |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 thought | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | bodies = body | all | except the duckling | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | snap | past · passive | the duckling | everyone | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | bodies = body | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not look | past · progressive | rest's mother | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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