The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 94

There it waddled up the drain, and so into the kitchen, where her little dog lay on the hearth-stone; it could not bear to stay in the fine chambers along with the ugly sister, and had taken refuge down here.

Who acts: duck, little dog · What happens: waddle up, lie, not bear, stay, take down · To what, where: drain, kitchen, hearth stone, fine chambers, refuge

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duck, little dog), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 waddled	expl
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waddled	nsubj
3	waddled	waddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 waddled	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 drain	det
6	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waddled	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kitchen	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 kitchen	cc
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 kitchen	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 kitchen	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kitchen	det
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waddled	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 lay	advmod
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 dog	nmod:poss
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dog	amod
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	nsubj
18	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 kitchen	parataxis
19	on	on	ADP	_	23 stone	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stone	det
21	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stone	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 hearth	punct
23	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 bear	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bear	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 bear	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 bear	advmod
28	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waddled	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 stay	mark
30	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 bear	xcomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 chambers	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 chambers	det
33	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 chambers	amod
34	chambers	chamber	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stay	obl
35	along	along	ADP	_	39 sister	case
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 sister	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sister	det
38	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sister	amod
39	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stay	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 taken	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 taken	cc
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 taken	aux
43	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 waddled	conj
44	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 taken	obj
45	down	down	ADV	_	43 taken	advmod
46	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 taken	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waddled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	waddle up	past	duck	the drain	the kitchen; there		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location drain=Theme
2	lie	past	wretch's little dog		the hearth stone		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location
3	not bear	could	duck				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	stay	to-infinitive	duck not said here		the fine chambers	along the ugly sister	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chamber=Location
5	take down	past · perfect	duck not said here	refuge	here	down property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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