The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 81
And the duckling soon found that it is one thing to enjoy being in the water, and quite another to like being damp on land.
Who acts: duckling, snow, another · What happens: find, be, enjoy, like · To what, where: one thing, land · 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 (duckling, snow, another), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 found | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 duckling | det |
| 3 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 found | advmod |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 thing | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thing | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 thing | cop |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 thing | nummod |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 enjoy | mark |
| 12 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thing | acl |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 enjoy | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 being | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 like | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 like | cc |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 another | advmod |
| 20 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 22 like | nsubj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 like | mark |
| 22 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 found | conj |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 damp | cop |
| 24 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 like | xcomp |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 land | case |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 damp | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the duckling | soon property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | snow | one thing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | to-infinitive | the duckling not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | like | to-infinitive | another | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | is not said to happen | gerund | another not said here | land | damp property | 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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