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title: The next morning the White Duck wandered round the pond in a distrac… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning the White Duck wandered round the pond in a distracted manner, looking for her little ones; she called and she searched, but could find no trace of them. Who acts: White Duck, Duck. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 41

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The next morning the White Duck wandered round the pond in a distracted manner, looking for her little ones; she called and she searched, but could find no trace of them.

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**Who acts:** White Duck, Duck · **What happens:** wander, distract, look, call, search, find · **To what, where:** distracted manner, trace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (White Duck, Duck), 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:pg640:29:41
# text = The next morning the White Duck wandered round the pond in a distracted manner, looking for her little ones; she called and she searched, but could find no trace of them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Duck	Duck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	distracted	distract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | the White Duck |  |  | a distracted manner | morning | round the pond | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round pond=Trajectory |
| 2 | **distract** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | the White Duck *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Duck's little ones | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for one=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | past | Duck |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **search** | past | Duck |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **find** | could | the White Duck *not said here* | no trace of ducklings |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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