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title: The duckling was almost sorry when he drew near the pink cloud and f… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The duckling was almost sorry when he drew near the pink cloud and found it was made up of apple blossoms growing beside a cottage whose garden ran down to the banks of the canal. Who acts: duckling, bird, apple blossoms, garden. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9,
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 105

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The duckling was almost sorry when he drew near the pink cloud and found it was made up of apple blossoms growing beside a cottage whose garden ran down to the banks of the canal.

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**Who acts:** duckling, bird, apple blossoms, garden · **What happens:** be, draw, find, make up, grow, run down · **To what, where:** pink cloud, cloud, cottage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duckling, bird, apple blossoms, garden), 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:pg3027:9:105
# text = The duckling was almost sorry when he drew near the pink cloud and found it was made up of apple blossoms growing beside a cottage whose garden ran down to the banks of the canal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	duckling	duckling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the duckling |  |  |  |  | almost, sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | past | bird |  |  | the pink cloud |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | past | bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **make up** | past · passive |  | cloud |  |  |  | of apple blossoms | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
| 5 | **grow** | gerund | apple blossoms *not said here* |  |  | a cottage |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside cottage=Location |
| 6 | **run down** | past | garden |  |  |  |  | to the banks of the canal *result*; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to bank=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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