The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 42
And in her heart she had a foreboding that evil had befallen them, and she fluttered up out of the water and flew to the palace.
Who acts: Duck · What happens: have, befall, flutter up, fly · To what, where: foreboding, heart, evil, water
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 had | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 heart | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 foreboding | det |
| 8 | foreboding | foreboding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 befallen | obj |
| 10 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 befallen | aux |
| 12 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 foreboding | acl:relcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 befallen | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fluttered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fluttered | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fluttered | nsubj |
| 17 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 fluttered | compound:prt |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fluttered | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flew | cc |
| 24 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fluttered | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flew | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Duck | a foreboding | Duck's heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foreboding=Patient | |||
| 2 | befall | past · perfect · passive | evil | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | flutter up | past | Duck | the water | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out water=Location | ||||
| 4 | fly | past | Duck not said here | to the palace result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result |
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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