Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 104

So the duckling sat in a corner, feeling very low spirited, till the sunshine and the fresh air came into the room through the open door, and then he began to feel such a great longing for a swim on the water, that he could not help telling the hen.

Who acts: duckling, sunshine, door · What happens: sit, feel, spirit, come, begin, not help · To what, where: corner, room, great longing, hen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duckling, sunshine, door), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duckling	det
3	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 corner	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 corner	det
7	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feeling	punct
9	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 low	advmod
11	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 spirited	advmod
12	spirited	spirit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 feeling	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sunshine	det
16	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 air	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 air	det
19	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 air	amod
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sunshine	conj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 room	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 room	det
24	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
25	through	through	ADP	_	28 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
27	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 door	amod
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 began	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 began	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 began	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 began	nsubj
33	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 feel	mark
35	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 began	xcomp
36	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	39 longing	det:predet
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 longing	det
38	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 longing	amod
39	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 feel	obj
40	for	for	ADP	_	42 swim	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 swim	det
42	swim	swim	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 longing	nmod
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 water	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 water	det
45	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 swim	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 help	punct
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 help	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 help	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 help	aux
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 help	advmod
51	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 feel	conj
52	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 help	xcomp
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 hen	det
54	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 telling	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the duckling			a corner			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
2	feel	gerund	the duckling not said here						vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	spirit	participle	the duckling not said here					low property	tree rules
4	come	past	the sunshine and the fresh air			the room		through the open door	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location through door=Destination
5	begin	past	door				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	feel	to-infinitive	door not said here	such great longing				for a swim on the water	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent longing=Location for swim=Theme
7	not help	could	door						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	tell speech: assert not said to happen	gerund	door not said here		the hen				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hen=Recipient

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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