The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 51
Listen to that White Duck.’
Who acts: you · What happens: listen · To what, where: White Duck
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 (you), 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 | Listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Duck | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Duck | nsubj |
| 4 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Duck | amod |
| 5 | Duck | Duck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Listen | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | White Duck | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to duck=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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