The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 50
The King heard the sad complaint of the White Duck, and called to the witch: ‘Wife, what a wonder is this?
Who acts: King, Wife, White Duck · What happens: hear, call, be, complain · To what, where: sad complaint, witch, this · 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 (King, Wife, White 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 complaint | det |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 complaint | amod |
| 6 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Duck | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Duck | det |
| 9 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Duck | amod |
| 10 | Duck | Duck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 complaint | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 called | cc |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heard | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 witch | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 witch | det |
| 16 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Wife | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Wife | punct |
| 19 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 this | punct |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 this | nsubj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wonder | det |
| 23 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 this | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 this | cop |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 Wife | conj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the King | the sad complaint of the White Duck | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer complaint=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | the King not said here | the witch | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to witch=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Wife | this | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | complain | the White Duck | nom complaint «state intransitive»: of=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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