The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 58
And again the duckling had to admit that he could do nothing but swim, which did not seem of much use to anybody.
Who acts: duckling, moor · What happens: have, admit, do, swim, not seem · To what, where: 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, moor), 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 | _ | 5 had | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 duckling | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 duckling | det |
| 4 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 admit | mark |
| 7 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 admit | ccomp |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 swim | cc |
| 14 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 admit | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seem | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 seem | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seem | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 seem | advmod |
| 19 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 admit | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 use | case |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 use | amod |
| 22 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seem | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 anybody | case |
| 24 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 use | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the duckling | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | to-infinitive | the duckling not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | could | moor | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | swim | present | the duckling not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not seem | past · do-support | of much use to anybody | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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