The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 75
'I can't stay here any longer, I Must get to the water,' repeated the duck.
Who acts: I · What happens: not stay, get, repeat · To what, where: duck
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 (I), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stay | advmod |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 repeated | ccomp |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stay | advmod |
| 7 | any | any | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 stay | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 11 | Must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stay | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 18 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 duck | det |
| 20 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 repeated | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay | can | I | here | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | must | I | to the water result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to water=Result | ||||
| 3 | repeat | past | the duck | tree rules |
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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