The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 6

No well-bred duckling turns in its toes.

Who acts: bred duckling · What happens: breed, turn · To what, where: toes

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 (bred duckling), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 duckling	det
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 bred	advmod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 well	punct
4	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 duckling	amod
5	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turns	nsubj
6	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 toes	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 toes	nmod:poss
9	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turns	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 turns	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breed	participle						well property	tree rules
2	turn	present	no bred duckling			duckling's toes			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in toe=Trajectory

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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