The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 67
And she told him that a bottle would be found in her nest in the garden, containing some drops from the spring of healing.
Who acts: Duck · What happens: tell, find, contain · To what, where: King, bottle, nest, drops · 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 found | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bottle | det |
| 7 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 found | aux:pass |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 nest | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 nest | nmod:poss |
| 13 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 garden | det |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 containing | punct |
| 18 | containing | contain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 found | advcl |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 drops | det |
| 20 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 containing | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 spring | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spring | det |
| 23 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drops | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 healing | case |
| 25 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spring | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Duck | King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find | would · passive | a bottle | Duck's nest | in the garden | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 3 | contain | gerund | some drops | from the spring of healing | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot drop=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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