--- title: Only the thirtieth little duck couldn’t come to the land; it swam ab… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Only the thirtieth little duck couldn’t come to the land; it swam about close to the shore, and, giving out a piercing cry, it stretched its neck up timidly, gazed wildly around, and then dived under again. Who acts: thirtieth little duck, land. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thirtieth little duck, land), 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:pg7277:27:59 # text = Only the thirtieth little duck couldn’t come to the land; it swam about close to the shore, and, giving out a piercing cry, it stretched its neck up timidly, gazed wildly around, and then dived under again. 1 Only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 thirtieth thirtieth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 7 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 piercing piercing NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 34 timidly timidly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 37 wildly wildly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 around around ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 42 dived dive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 43 under under ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 again again ADV RB _ 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **come** | could | the thirtieth little duck | | | the land | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **swim** | past | land | | | | | close *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **give out** | gerund | land *not said here* | a piercing cry | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | | 4 | **stretch up** | past | land | land's neck | | | | timidly *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | | 5 | **gaze** | past | land *not said here* | | | | | around *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **dive** | past | land *not said here* | | | | then | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under again=Location | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/27/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/27/60/) - ↑ back to [The Biter Bit, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/27/)