The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 41

The next morning the White Duck wandered round the pond in a distracted manner, looking for her little ones; she called and she searched, but could find no trace of them.

Who acts: White Duck, Duck · What happens: wander, distract, look, call, search, find · To what, where: distracted manner, trace · 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 (White Duck, Duck), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wandered	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Duck	det
5	White	White	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Duck	amod
6	Duck	Duck	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wandered	nsubj
7	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	round	round	ADP	_	10 pond	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pond	det
10	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wandered	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 manner	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 manner	det
13	distracted	distract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 manner	amod
14	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wandered	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looking	punct
16	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 wandered	advcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 ones	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 ones	nmod:poss
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ones	amod
20	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 looking	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 called	nsubj
23	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wandered	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 searched	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 searched	nsubj
26	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 called	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 find	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 find	cc
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 find	aux
30	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wandered	conj
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 trace	det
32	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 find	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 trace	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	the White Duck		a distracted manner	morning	round the pond	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round pond=Trajectory
2	distract	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	look	gerund	the White Duck not said here				for Duck's little ones	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for one=Theme
4	call	past	Duck					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	search	past	Duck					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
6	find	could	the White Duck not said here	no trace of ducklings				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic

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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