The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 30
And the duckling answered that he had no idea of marrying anybody, and wanted nothing but to be left alone after his long journey.
Who acts: duckling, rest, idea · What happens: answer, have, marry, want, leave, journey · To what, where: idea, anybody, nothing · 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 (duckling, rest, idea), 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 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 duckling | det |
| 3 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 idea | det |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 marrying | mark |
| 11 | marrying | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 idea | acl |
| 12 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 marrying | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wanted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wanted | cc |
| 15 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 wanted | obj |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 left | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 left | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 left | aux:pass |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 wanted | conj |
| 21 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 left | xcomp |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 journey | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 journey | nmod:poss |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 journey | amod |
| 25 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the duckling | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | rest | no idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 3 | marry | gerund | no idea not said here | anybody | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Patient | ||||
| 4 | want | past | nothing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leave | to-infinitive · passive | after rest's long journey | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 6 | journey | rest | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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