The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 68
And it was brought to her; and the ducklings and little drake were sprinkled with the water, and from the little dead bodies three lovely children arose.
Who acts: three lovely children · What happens: bring, sprinkle, arise · To what, where: bottle, Duck, ducklings, little dead bodies
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 (three lovely 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 brought | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sprinkled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sprinkled | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ducklings | det |
| 10 | ducklings | duckling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sprinkled | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drake | cc |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 drake | amod |
| 13 | drake | drake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ducklings | conj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sprinkled | aux:pass |
| 15 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 brought | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sprinkled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 arose | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 arose | cc |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 bodies | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bodies | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bodies | amod |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bodies | amod |
| 25 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 arose | obl |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 children | nummod |
| 27 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 children | amod |
| 28 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 arose | nsubj |
| 29 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sprinkled | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | bottle | Duck | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to she=Destination | ||||
| 2 | sprinkle | past · passive | the ducklings and little drake | with the water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | arise | past | three lovely children | the little dead bodies | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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