The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 94

Then the Duck assumed the Queen’s shape, went up to the child’s room, tucked him up comfortably in his cradle, and then swam back down the gutter again, in the likeness of a Duck.

Who acts: Duck · What happens: assume, go up, tuck up, swim back · To what, where: shape, duck, cradle, likeness

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 assumed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Duck	det
3	Duck	Duck	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 assumed	nsubj
4	assumed	assume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 shape	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Queen	case
8	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assumed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 assumed	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 went	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 room	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 room	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 child	case
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tucked	punct
18	tucked	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 assumed	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tucked	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 tucked	compound:prt
21	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	18 tucked	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 cradle	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 cradle	nmod:poss
24	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tucked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 swam	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 swam	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 swam	advmod
28	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 assumed	conj
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 swam	advmod
30	down	down	ADP	_	32 gutter	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 gutter	det
32	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 swam	obl
33	again	again	ADV	_	28 swam	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 likeness	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 likeness	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 likeness	det
37	likeness	likeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 swam	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 Duck	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 Duck	det
40	Duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 likeness	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 assumed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assume	past	the Duck	the Queen's shape		then		vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
2	go up	past	the Duck not said here				to the child's room	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	tuck up	past	the Duck not said here	duck	duck's cradle		comfortably property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme in cradle=Trajectory
4	swim back	past	the Duck not said here		the likeness of a Duck	then; again	down the gutter	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down gutter=Trajectory

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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