Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 110

Ask the cat, he is the cleverest animal I know, ask him how he would like to swim about on the water, or to dive under it, for I will not speak of my own opinion; ask our mistress, the old woman--there is no one in the world more clever than she is.

Who acts: you, cat, I, mistress, my · What happens: ask, be, know, like, swim, dive · To what, where: cat, cleverest animal, water · 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 (you, cat, I, mistress), 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	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 animal	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 animal	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 animal	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animal	det
8	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 animal	amod
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	ccomp
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 animal	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ask	punct
13	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ask	obj
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 like	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 like	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ask	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 swim	mark
20	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 like	xcomp
21	about	about	ADV	_	20 swim	advmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 water	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swim	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dive	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 dive	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 dive	mark
28	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 swim	conj
29	under	under	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dive	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 speak	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 speak	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 speak	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 speak	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 speak	advmod
36	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 dive	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 opinion	case
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 opinion	nmod:poss
39	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 opinion	amod
40	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 speak	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 ask	punct
42	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	conj
43	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 mistress	nmod:poss
44	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 clever	nsubj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 woman	punct
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 woman	det
47	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 woman	amod
48	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 mistress	appos
49	--	--	PUNCT	_	51 is	punct
50	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	51 is	expl
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 clever	cop
52	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	53 one	det
53	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 is	nsubj
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 world	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 world	det
56	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 one	nmod
57	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	58 clever	advmod
58	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 ask	ccomp
59	than	than	SCONJ	_	61 is	mark
60	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 is	nsubj
61	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 clever	cop
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		the cat			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient
2	is a	present	cat	the cleverest animal				tree rules
3	know	present	I	the cleverest animal not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		cat			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	like not said to happen	would	cat					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	swim not said to happen	to-infinitive	cat not said here			the water	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory
7	dive	to-infinitive	cat not said here				under animal	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under it=Location
8	not speak speech: other	future	I				of my own opinion	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is	present	our mistress				clever property	tree rules
11	opine		my					nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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