The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 16

In this way he caught it, and came in to the others with the most beautiful duck they had ever seen--with so many golden feathers on it that everyone marvelled.

Who acts: cook, others, everyone · What happens: catch, come in, see, marvell · To what, where: way, others, beautiful duck

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, others, everyone), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	nsubj
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	conj
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 others	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 others	det
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	18 duck	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 duck	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 beautiful	advmod
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 duck	amod
18	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 others	nmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seen	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	aux
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 seen	advmod
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 duck	acl:relcl
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 feathers	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	28 feathers	case
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 many	advmod
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feathers	amod
27	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feathers	amod
28	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 seen	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 feathers	nmod
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 marvelled	mark
32	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	33 marvelled	nsubj
33	marvelled	marvell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 feathers	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	cook	way	this way			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	come in	past	cook not said here		the others with the beautiful duck			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to other=Initial_Location
3	see	past · perfect	others = other	the beautiful duck not said here		ever	with many golden feathers on way	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer duck=Stimulus
4	marvell	past	everyone					tree rules

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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