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title: Other birds might have thought that when the duck went down in the m… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Other birds might have thought that when the duck went down in the morning and evening to the water to stretch her legs in a good swim, some lazy mother might have been on the watch, and have popped her egg into the nest. Who acts: duck, lazy mother. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew L
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 65

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Other birds might have thought that when the duck went down in the morning and evening to the water to stretch her legs in a good swim, some lazy mother might have been on the watch, and have popped her egg into the nest.

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**Who acts:** duck, lazy mother · **What happens:** think, go down, stretch, be, pop · **To what, where:** Other birds, legs, watch, egg, nest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duck, lazy mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:8:65
# text = Other birds might have thought that when the duck went down in the morning and evening to the water to stretch her legs in a good swim, some lazy mother might have been on the watch, and have popped her egg into the nest.
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	stretch	stretch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	swim	swim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
30	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
32	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	cop	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	popped	pop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | might · perfect · passive |  | Other birds |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go down** | past | the duck |  |  |  | morning | to the water; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **stretch** | to-infinitive | the duck *not said here* | duck's legs |  |  |  | in a good swim and the watch | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=Patient in swim=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | might · perfect | some lazy mother |  |  | the watch |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pop** | present · perfect |  | duck's egg |  |  |  | into the nest *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent egg=Patient into nest=Result |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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