The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 78

The duckling would have liked to say good- bye, and thank them for their kindness, as he was polite by nature; but they had both turned their backs on him, so he went out of the rickety door feeling rather sad.

Who acts: fellow, places · What happens: like, say, thank, be, turn, go out · To what, where: duckling, good, places, backs, rickety door · 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 (fellow, places), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duckling	det
2	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 liked	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 liked	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 liked	aux
5	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 liked	xcomp
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	obj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 good	punct
10	bye	bye	INTJ	_	7 say	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thank	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thank	cc
13	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 liked	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thank	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 kindness	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 kindness	nmod:poss
17	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thank	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 polite	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 polite	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 polite	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 polite	cop
22	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thank	conj
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 nature	case
24	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 polite	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 liked	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 turned	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 turned	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 turned	aux
29	both	both	ADV	_	30 turned	advmod
30	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 liked	conj
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 backs	nmod:poss
32	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 turned	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 turned	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 went	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	38 went	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 went	nsubj
38	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 liked	conj
39	out	out	ADP	_	43 door	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 door	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 door	det
42	rickety	rickety	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 door	amod
43	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 went	obl
44	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 went	advcl
45	rather	rather	ADV	_	46 sad	advmod
46	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 feeling	xcomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	like	would · perfect · passive		the duckling			tree rules
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive		good			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme bye=Manner
3	thank speech: thank	present			places = place	for places's kindness	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for kindness=Attribute
4	is	past	fellow			by nature; polite property	tree rules
5	turn	past · perfect	places = place	places's backs		on fellow; both property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
6	go out	past	fellow	the rickety door			tree rules
7	feel	gerund	fellow not said here			sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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