The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 61

It calls itself a duckling; but it can neither lay eggs nor purr!

Who acts: creature · What happens: call, lay · To what, where: creature, eggs · 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 (creature), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 calls	nsubj
2	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 calls	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 duckling	det
5	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 lay	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lay	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lay	aux
10	neither	neither	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
11	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 calls	conj
12	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lay	obj
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 purr	cc
14	purr	purr	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eggs	conj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 calls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	creature	creature					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient
2	lay	can	creature	eggs nor purr				neither property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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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