The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 24

In the meantime, outside the palace walls, the poor White Duck swam up and down the pond; and near it laid three eggs, out of which there came one morning two little fluffy ducklings and a little ugly drake.

Who acts: poor White Duck, pond · What happens: swim, lay, come · To what, where: meantime, three eggs, two little fluffy ducklings

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor White Duck, pond), 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 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swam	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 walls	punct
5	outside	outside	ADP	_	8 walls	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walls	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walls	compound
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 meantime	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 meantime	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Duck	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Duck	amod
12	White	White	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Duck	amod
13	Duck	Duck	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 swam	nsubj
14	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	up	up	ADV	_	14 swam	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pond	cc
17	down	down	ADP	_	19 pond	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pond	det
19	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 up	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 laid	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 laid	cc
22	near	near	ADP	_	24 laid	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 laid	nsubj
24	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 swam	conj
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 eggs	nummod
26	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 laid	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
28	out	out	ADP	_	30 which	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 came	obl
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 came	expl
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 laid	conj
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 morning	nummod
34	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ducklings	obl:unmarked
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 ducklings	nummod
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ducklings	amod
37	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ducklings	amod
38	ducklings	duckling	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 came	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 drake	cc
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 drake	det
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 drake	amod
42	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 drake	amod
43	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ducklings	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	swim	past	the poor White Duck		the meantime and the palace walls	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meantime=Trajectory
2	lay	past	pond	three eggs		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
3	come	past	pond not said here	two little fluffy ducklings and a little ugly drake	there	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out which=Initial_Location

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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