The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 56
The ducks swam about all over the place, dived down into the depths and rose again and glided through the waves.
Who acts: ducks · What happens: swim, dive down, rise, glide · To what, where: place, depths
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ducks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ducks | det |
| 2 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 all | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 place | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swam | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dived | punct |
| 10 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swam | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 dived | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 depths | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 depths | det |
| 14 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dived | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rose | cc |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swam | conj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 rose | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 glided | cc |
| 19 | glided | glide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 rose | conj |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 waves | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 waves | det |
| 22 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 glided | obl:agent |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | the ducks | the place | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over place=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | dive down | past | the ducks not said here | the depths | down property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into depth=Location | |||
| 3 | rise | past | the ducks not said here | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | glide | participle | the ducks not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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