The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 44

The White Duck threw herself upon them, and, covering up their little bodies with her wings, she cried:

Who acts: White Duck, Duck · What happens: throw, cover up, cry · To what, where: Duck, little bodies

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 Duck	det
2	White	White	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Duck	amod
3	Duck	Duck	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 threw	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 covering	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 covering	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 covering	punct
11	covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 threw	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 covering	compound:prt
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bodies	nmod:poss
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bodies	amod
15	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 covering	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 wings	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wings	nmod:poss
18	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 covering	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cried	nsubj
21	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threw	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the White Duck	Duck	upon children = child	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon they=Destination
2	cover up	gerund	the White Duck not said here	children's little bodies	with Duck's wings	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Destination with wing=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	Duck			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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