The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 57

At last, tired of disporting themselves, they swam to the shore, and twenty-nine of them put on their little white garments and instantly turned into so many beautiful maidens.

Who acts: ducks, twenty nine · What happens: disport, swim, put, turn · To what, where: ducks, shore, little white garments, many beautiful maidens

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, twenty nine), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 swam	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tired	punct
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 last	conj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 disporting	mark
6	disporting	disport	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tired	advcl
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 disporting	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swam	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 swam	nsubj
10	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 shore	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shore	det
13	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swam	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 nine	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 nine	cc
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 nine	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 twenty	punct
18	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 put	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 nine	nmod
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 swam	parataxis
22	on	on	ADP	_	26 garments	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 garments	nmod:poss
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 garments	amod
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 garments	amod
26	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 put	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 turned	cc
28	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	29 turned	advmod
29	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 put	conj
30	into	into	ADP	_	34 maidens	case
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 many	advmod
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 maidens	amod
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 maidens	amod
34	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 turned	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	disport	gerund	ducks = duck not said here	ducks = duck			tree rules
2	swim	past	ducks = duck		the shore		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination
3	put	present	twenty nine of ducks		ducks's little white garments		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on garment=Destination
4	turn	past	twenty nine of ducks not said here		many beautiful maidens	instantly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into maiden=Trajectory

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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