The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 31

But the little drake could not go to sleep, and as he lay there wide awake in the night he heard the witch come to the door and say:

Who acts: little drake, drake, witch · What happens: not go, lie, hear, come, say · To what, where: sleep, witch, door · 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 (little drake, drake, witch), 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 go	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drake	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drake	amod
4	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 go	advmod
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 sleep	case
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lay	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lay	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 lay	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lay	nsubj
14	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	parataxis
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 lay	advmod
16	wide	wide	ADV	_	17 awake	advmod
17	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lay	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 night	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lay	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 witch	det
24	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obj
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 heard	xcomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 door	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 say	cc
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	conj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	could	the little drake		sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
2	lie	past	drake		there		awake property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	drake	the witch		night		tree rules
4	come	infinitive	the witch not said here		the door			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
5	say speech: assert	infinitive	the witch not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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