The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 56

But though the servants chased and chevied, they could not get rid of the duck; for she circled round and round, and always came back to the spot where her children lay, crying:

Who acts: servants, Duck, children · What happens: chase, chevy, not get, circle, come back, lay · To what, where: spot

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 (servants, Duck, children), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 get	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 chased	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servants	det
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chased	nsubj
5	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 get	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 chevied	cc
7	chevied	chevy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chased	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chased	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 get	advmod
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 get	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 duck	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 duck	det
16	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rid	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 circled	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 circled	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 circled	nsubj
20	circled	circle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 get	parataxis
21	round	round	ADV	_	20 circled	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 round	cc
23	round	round	ADV	_	21 round	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 came	advmod
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 circled	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 spot	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 spot	det
31	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 lay	advmod
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 children	nmod:poss
34	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 lay	nsubj
35	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 spot	acl:relcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 crying	punct
37	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 came	advcl
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	chase	past	the servants			vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	chevy	past	the servants not said here			tree rules
3	not get	could	servants = servant		rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	circle	past	Duck		round property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	come back	past	Duck not said here	the spot	always property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial_Location
6	lay	present	Duck's children			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	cry speech: express	gerund	Duck not said here			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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