The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 30

In the meantime the two little ducklings had fallen asleep, and the little drake lay between them, covered up by their wings, to be kept warm under their feathers.

Who acts: two little ducklings, little drake · What happens: fall, lay, cover up, keep · To what, where: meantime

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 (two little ducklings, little drake), 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	9 fallen	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ducklings	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ducklings	nummod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ducklings	amod
7	ducklings	duckling	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fallen	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fallen	aux
9	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fallen	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lay	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lay	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 drake	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 drake	amod
15	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fallen	parataxis
17	between	between	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lay	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 covered	punct
20	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 lay	advcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 covered	compound:prt
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 wings	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wings	nmod:poss
24	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 covered	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 kept	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	28 kept	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 kept	aux:pass
28	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 lay	advcl
29	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 kept	xcomp
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 feathers	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 feathers	nmod:poss
32	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 warm	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	the two little ducklings	the meantime	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in meantime=Location
2	lay	infinitive	the little drake		between ducklings = duckling	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between they=Destination
3	cover up	participle	the little drake not said here		by ducklings's wings	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	keep	to-infinitive · passive	the little drake not said here		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»

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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