The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 87
And Drakestail, quite content, begins to swim, singing deafeningly, ‘Quack, quack, quack, when shall I get my money back?’
Who acts: Drakestail, I · What happens: begin, swim, sing, get back · To what, where: Quack, money
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 begins | cc |
| 2 | Drakestail | Drakestail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 begins | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 content | punct |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 content | amod |
| 5 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Drakestail | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Drakestail | punct |
| 7 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 swim | mark |
| 9 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 begins | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 singing | punct |
| 11 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 begins | advcl |
| 12 | deafeningly | deafeningly | ADV | _ | 11 singing | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Quack | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Quack | punct |
| 15 | Quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 singing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 quack | punct |
| 17 | quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Quack | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 quack | punct |
| 19 | quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Quack | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 get | advmod |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 get | nsubj |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 singing | conj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 money | nmod:poss |
| 26 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 get | obj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 get | advmod |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | Drakestail | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | swim | to-infinitive | Drakestail not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | Drakestail not said here | Quack and quack and quack | deafeningly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | get back | shall | I | my money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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