The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 84
But that same evening the scullion noticed a duck swimming up the gutter, saying as it passed:
Who acts: scullion, duck · What happens: notice, swim up, say, pass · To what, where: duck, gutter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scullion, duck), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 noticed | cc |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 evening | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 evening | amod |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noticed | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 scullion | det |
| 6 | scullion | scullion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noticed | nsubj |
| 7 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 duck | det |
| 9 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noticed | obj |
| 10 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 duck | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 swimming | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gutter | det |
| 13 | gutter | gutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swimming | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saying | punct |
| 15 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 noticed | parataxis |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 passed | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 passed | nsubj |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saying | ccomp |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | the scullion | a duck | evening | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer duck=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | swim up | gerund | a duck not said here | the gutter | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gutter=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | pass | past | scullion | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/84/