The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 7

On the third evening the duck again came waddling in by the drain, and up to the dog on the hearth-stone.

Who acts: duck · What happens: come, waddle

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 (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	On	on	ADP	_	4 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 evening	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 evening	amod
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 duck	det
6	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 duck	advmod
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	waddling	waddle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 came	xcomp
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 waddling	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 drain	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 drain	det
13	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waddling	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 up	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 up	cc
16	up	up	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 dog	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dog	det
19	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 up	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	24 stone	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stone	det
22	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stone	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 hearth	punct
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dog	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the duck				evening		tree rules
2	waddle	gerund	the duck not said here					by the drain	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by drain=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 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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