--- title: Now the duck had been carefully brought up, and did not like dirt, a… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now the duck had been carefully brought up, and did not like dirt, and, besides, broken shells are not at all comfortable things to sit or walk upon; so she pushed the rest out over the side, and felt delighted to have some company to talk to till the big egg hatched. Who acts: broken shells, duck. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/74/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/) / 74 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 74 Now the duck had been carefully brought up, and did not like dirt, and, besides, broken shells are not at all comfortable things to sit or walk upon; so she pushed the rest out over the side, and felt delighted to have some company to talk to till the big egg hatched. **Who acts:** broken shells, duck · **What happens:** bring up, not like, break, not be, sit, walk · **To what, where:** duck, dirt, comfortable things, rest, side, company 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 (broken shells, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:8:74 # text = Now the duck had been carefully brought up, and did not like dirt, and, besides, broken shells are not at all comfortable things to sit or walk upon; so she pushed the rest out over the side, and felt delighted to have some company to talk to till the big egg hatched. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 aux:pass _ _ 6 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 14 dirt dirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 besides besides INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 26 comfortable comfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 32 upon upon ADP IN _ 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 out out ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 40 over over ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 46 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 xcomp _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 xcomp _ _ 49 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 50 det _ _ 50 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 51 to to PART TO _ 52 mark _ _ 52 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 50 acl _ _ 53 to to ADP IN _ 52 obl _ _ 54 till till ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 56 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 58 hatched hatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 57 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring up** | past · perfect · passive | | the duck | | | now | carefully *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | | dirt | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dirt=Theme | | 3 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | broken shells | | | all comfortable things | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sit** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **walk** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **push out** | past | duck | the rest | | the side | | out *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent rest=Theme over side=Trajectory | | 8 | **feel** | past | duck *not said here* | | | | | delighted *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 9 | **have** | to-infinitive | duck *not said here* | some company | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient | | 10 | **talk** | to-infinitive | duck *not said here* | some company *not said here* | | | till the big egg | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **hatch** | participle | | the big egg *not said here* | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/75/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/)