The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 29
'You are ugly,' said the wild ducks, when they had looked him well over; 'but, however, it is no business of ours, unless you wish to marry one of our daughters, and that we should not allow.'
Who acts: You, wild ducks, yard, we · What happens: be, say, look over, wish, marry, not allow · To what, where: rest, business, one · 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, wild ducks, yard, we), 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 | _ | 4 ugly | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ugly | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ugly | cop |
| 4 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ugly | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ugly | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ducks | det |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ducks | amod |
| 10 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 looked | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 looked | aux |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | obj |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 over | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 looked | compound:prt |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 business | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 but | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 business | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 but | punct |
| 23 | however | however | ADV | _ | 28 business | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 however | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 business | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 business | cop |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 business | det |
| 28 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 ours | case |
| 30 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 business | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wish | punct |
| 32 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 34 wish | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 wish | nsubj |
| 34 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 business | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 marry | mark |
| 36 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 wish | xcomp |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 marry | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 daughters | case |
| 39 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 40 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 one | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 allow | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 allow | cc |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 allow | mark |
| 44 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 allow | nsubj |
| 45 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 allow | aux |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 allow | advmod |
| 47 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 wish | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 business | punct |
| 49 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 business | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | look over | past · perfect | the wild ducks | rest | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | yard | no business | of ours; however property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | one of our daughters | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 7 | not allow | should | we | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer |
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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