The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 66
So the duckling remained for three weeks, and shared the food of the cat and the hen; but nothing in the way of eggs happened at all.
Who acts: duckling · What happens: remain, share, happen · To what, where: duckling, food, eggs, all
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 shared | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 duckling | det |
| 3 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shared | nsubj |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 duckling | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 weeks | case |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 weeks | nummod |
| 7 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 remained | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shared | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shared | cc |
| 10 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 food | det |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shared | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cat | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cat | det |
| 15 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 food | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hen | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hen | det |
| 18 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cat | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 nothing | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 nothing | cc |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 shared | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 way | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nothing | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 eggs | case |
| 26 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 way | nmod |
| 27 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 eggs | acl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 all | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 happened | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | participle | the duckling not said here | week | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | share | past | the duckling | the food of the cat and the hen | nothing obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | happen | participle | eggs not said here | all | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location |
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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