The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 65
So the King himself stepped down amongst them, and instantly the duck fluttered down into his hands.
Who acts: King, duck · What happens: step down, flutter down · To what, where: hands
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, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | nsubj |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 King | nmod |
| 5 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 stepped | compound:prt |
| 7 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stepped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fluttered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fluttered | cc |
| 11 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 14 fluttered | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 duck | det |
| 13 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fluttered | nsubj |
| 14 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stepped | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 fluttered | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 hands | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fluttered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step down | past | the King King | amongst words = word | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | flutter down | past | the duck | King's hands | down, instantly property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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