The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 95

The duck hopped up till it could talk to the dog.

Who acts: duck · What happens: hop up, talk

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hopped	nsubj
3	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 hopped	compound:prt
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 talk	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 talk	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 talk	aux
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hopped	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 dog	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talk	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop up	past	the duck						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	could	duck					to the dog	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to dog=Co-Agent

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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