The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 67

Then the sun came out, and the air grew soft, and the duckling grew tired of being in a hut, and wanted with all his might to have a swim.

Who acts: sun, air, duckling · What happens: come out, grow, be, want, have · To what, where: swim

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 (sun, air, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grew	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	nsubj
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
11	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grew	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 grew	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 duckling	det
15	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grew	nsubj
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
17	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grew	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 hut	case
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 hut	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 hut	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hut	det
22	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tired	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wanted	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wanted	cc
25	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
26	with	with	SCONJ	_	31 have	mark
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 have	det:predet
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 have	nmod:poss
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
30	to	to	PART	_	31 have	mark
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wanted	ccomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 swim	det
33	swim	swim	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the sun		then	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	grow	past	the air			soft property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	the duckling			tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	gerund				of a hut	tree rules
5	want	past					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	have not said to happen	might		a swim			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swim=Patient

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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