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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 38

He stood there looking after the crocodile, and rejoicing that he was free, when he was startled by a wild duck which flew past them, seeking shelter among the rushes that bordered the edge of the stream.

Who acts: prince, wild duck, rushes · What happens: stand, look, rejoice, be, startle, fly · To what, where: prince, shelter, rushes, edge

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, wild duck, rushes), 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

nsubjadvmodadvclcasedetoblpunctccadvclmarknsubjcopccomppunctadvmodnsubjaux:passconjcasedetamodoblnsubjacl:relclcaseoblpunctadvclobjcasedetoblnsubjacl:relcldetobjcasedetnmodpunctrootHePRONstoodVERBthereADVlookingVERBafterADPtheDETcrocodileNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJrejoicingVERBthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXfreeADJ,PUNCTwhenADVhePRONwasAUXstartledVERBbyADPaDETwildADJduckNOUNwhichPRONflewVERBpastADPthemPRON,PUNCTseekingVERBshelterNOUNamongADPtheDETrushesNOUNthatPRONborderedVERBtheDETedgeNOUNofADPtheDETstreamNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 stoodnsubj
2stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3therethereADVPronType=Dem2 stoodadvmod
4lookinglookVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 stoodadvcl
5afterafterADP_7 crocodilecase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 crocodiledet
7crocodilecrocodileNOUNNumber=Sing4 lookingobl
8,,PUNCT_10 rejoicingpunct
9andandCCONJ_10 rejoicingcc
10rejoicingrejoiceVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 stoodadvcl
11thatthatSCONJ_14 freemark
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 freensubj
13wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 freecop
14freefreeADJDegree=Pos10 rejoicingccomp
15,,PUNCT_19 startledpunct
16whenwhenADVPronType=Int19 startledadvmod
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 startlednsubj
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 startledaux:pass
19startledstartleVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 stoodconj
20bybyADP_23 duckcase
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 duckdet
22wildwildADJDegree=Pos23 duckamod
23duckduckNOUNNumber=Sing19 startledobl
24whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel25 flewnsubj
25flewflyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 duckacl:relcl
26pastpastADP_27 themcase
27themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs25 flewobl
28,,PUNCT_29 seekingpunct
29seekingseekVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 startledadvcl
30sheltershelterNOUNNumber=Sing29 seekingobj
31amongamongADP_33 rushescase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 rushesdet
33rushesrushNOUNNumber=Plur29 seekingobl
34thatthatPRONPronType=Rel35 borderednsubj
35borderedborderVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 rushesacl:relcl
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 edgedet
37edgeedgeNOUNNumber=Sing35 borderedobj
38ofofADP_40 streamcase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 streamdet
40streamstreamNOUNNumber=Sing37 edgenmod
41..PUNCT_2 stoodpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1standpastprincetherevn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2lookgerundprince not said hereafter the crocodilevn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3rejoicegerundprince not said herevn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4ispastprincefree propertytree rules
5startlepast · passivea wild duckprincevn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
6flypasta wild duckpast fates = fatevn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past they=Trajectory
7seekgerunda wild duck not said hereshelterthe rushesvn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme among rush=Location
8borderpastthe rushesthe edge of the streamvn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme edge=Co-Theme

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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