Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 12

How large the world is," said the young ducks, when they found how much more room they now had than while they were inside the egg-shell. "

Who acts: world, Quack, more room · What happens: be, say, find, have · To what, where: young ducks · 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 (world, Quack, more room), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 large	advmod
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 large	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 large	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 large	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 large	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ducks	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ducks	amod
11	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 found	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 found	nsubj
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ducks	acl:relcl
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 room	amod
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	nsubj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 had	advmod
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 found	ccomp
23	than	than	ADP	_	31 shell	case
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 shell	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 shell	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 shell	cop
27	inside	inside	ADP	_	31 shell	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 shell	det
29	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shell	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 egg	punct
31	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the world			large property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the young ducks			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duck=Topic
3	find in a quote	past	Quack				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have in a quote	past	more room		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	past	Quack			than the egg shell	tree rules

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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