Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 123
"I believe I must go out into the world again," said the duckling.
Who acts: duckling · What happens: believe, go out, say · To what, where: world · 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), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | parataxis |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 duckling | det |
| 16 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | present | the duckling = duckling | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | go out in a quote | must | the duckling = duckling | the world | again | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the duckling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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