The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 4

By this time they had reached the centre of the yard, where a very old duck was sitting, who was treated with great respect by all the fowls present.

Who acts: children, old duck, fowls present · What happens: reach, sit, treat · To what, where: centre

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 (children, old duck, fowls present), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reached	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	aux
6	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 centre	det
8	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 yard	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 yard	det
11	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 centre	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sitting	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 sitting	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 duck	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 old	advmod
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 duck	amod
17	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sitting	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sitting	aux
19	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 centre	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 treated	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 treated	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 treated	aux:pass
23	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 sitting	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 respect	case
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 respect	amod
26	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 treated	obl
27	by	by	ADP	_	31 present	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 present	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 present	det
30	fowls	fowls	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 present	amod
31	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 treated	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past · perfect	children = child	the centre of the yard	time		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent centre=Theme
2	sit	past · progressive	a old duck				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	treat	past · passive	all fowls present			with great respect	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient with respect=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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