The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 40
So she opened the door gently, and seeing the two little ducklings sound asleep, she there and then killed them.
Who acts: answer, seeing · What happens: open, see, sound, kill · To what, where: door, two little ducklings, ducklings
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 (answer, seeing), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 3 opened | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sound | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sound | cc |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 sound | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ducklings | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 ducklings | nummod |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ducklings | amod |
| 13 | ducklings | duckling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seeing | obj |
| 14 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | parataxis |
| 15 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sound | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 there | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 there | nsubj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 sound | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 killed | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 killed | advmod |
| 21 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 there | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 killed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | answer | the door | gently property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | the two little ducklings | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer duckling=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | sound | present | seeing | asleep property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | seeing not said here | ducklings = duckling | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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