The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 25

And the White Duck brought the little creatures up, and they paddled after her in the pond, and caught gold-fish, and hopped upon the bank and waddled about, ruffling their feathers and saying ‘Quack, quack’ as they strutted about on the green banks of the pond.

Who acts: White Duck, creatures · What happens: bring, paddle, catch, hop, waddle, ruffle · To what, where: little creatures, pond, gold fish, bank, feathers, Quack · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (White Duck, creatures), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 brought	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Duck	det
3	White	White	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Duck	amod
4	Duck	Duck	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brought	nsubj
5	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 creatures	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 creatures	amod
8	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 brought	obj
9	up	up	ADV	_	5 brought	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 paddled	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 paddled	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 paddled	nsubj
13	paddled	paddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	conj
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 paddled	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 pond	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pond	det
18	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 paddled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 caught	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 caught	cc
21	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	parataxis
22	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fish	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 gold	punct
24	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caught	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hopped	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hopped	cc
27	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 caught	conj
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 bank	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bank	det
30	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hopped	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 waddled	cc
32	waddled	waddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hopped	conj
33	about	about	ADV	_	32 waddled	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ruffling	punct
35	ruffling	ruffle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 waddled	advcl
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 feathers	nmod:poss
37	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 ruffling	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 saying	cc
39	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 ruffling	conj
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	41 Quack	punct
41	Quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 saying	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 quack	punct
43	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Quack	conj
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	41 Quack	punct
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 strutted	mark
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 strutted	nsubj
47	strutted	strut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 saying	ccomp
48	about	about	ADV	_	47 strutted	advmod
49	on	on	ADP	_	52 banks	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 banks	det
51	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 banks	amod
52	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 strutted	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 pond	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 pond	det
55	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 banks	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	the White Duck	the little creatures				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent creature=Theme
2	paddle	past	creatures = creature		the pond	after Duck		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	catch	past		gold fish				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
4	hop	past			the bank			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bank=Trajectory
5	waddle	past					about property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ruffle	gerund		creatures's feathers				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus feather=Experiencer
7	say speech: assert	gerund		Quack and quack				tree rules
8	strut	past	creatures = creature		the green banks of the pond		about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=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 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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