The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 33
And the little drake answered for the other two:
What happens: answer · To what, where: little drake
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: 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 | _ | 4 drake | 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 | root | root |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 drake | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 two | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 two | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 two | amod |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 answered | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 drake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | participle | the little drake not said here | for the other two | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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