The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 27

But the young ones did not listen to their mother, and, playing about the garden one day, they strayed close up to the castle windows.

Who acts: young ones, creatures · What happens: not listen, play, stray, close up · To what, where: castle windows

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 (young ones, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 listen	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ones	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 listen	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 listen	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 listen	advmod
7	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 mother	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 listen	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 playing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 playing	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 playing	punct
14	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 listen	parataxis
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 garden	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 garden	det
17	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 playing	obl
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 day	nummod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 playing	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 strayed	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 strayed	nsubj
22	strayed	stray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 playing	conj
23	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 strayed	xcomp
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 close	compound:prt
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 windows	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 windows	det
27	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 windows	compound
28	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 close	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not listen	past · do-support	the young ones			to creatures's mother	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to mother=Theme
2	play	gerund			day	about the garden	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stray	past	creatures = creature				tree rules
4	close up	infinitive	creatures = creature not said here	the castle windows			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to window=Recipient

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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