Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 125

So the duckling left the cottage, and soon found water on which it could swim and dive, but was avoided by all other animals, because of its ugly appearance.

Who acts: duckling, cottage, other animals · What happens: leave, find, swim, dive, avoid · To what, where: cottage, 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 (duckling, cottage, other animals), 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 left	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duckling	det
3	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cottage	det
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 found	advmod
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	conj
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 swim	obl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 swim	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 swim	aux
16	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 found	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dive	cc
18	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 swim	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 avoided	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 avoided	cc
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 avoided	aux:pass
22	avoided	avoid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 left	conj
23	by	by	ADP	_	26 animals	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 animals	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 animals	amod
26	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 avoided	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 appearance	punct
28	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	32 appearance	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 because	fixed
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 appearance	nmod:poss
31	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 appearance	amod
32	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 avoided	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the duckling	the cottage		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme
2	find	past	the duckling not said here	water	soon property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent water=Attribute clause=Theme
3	swim	could	cottage			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Trajectory
4	dive	infinitive	cottage not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	avoid	past · passive	all other animals		because cottage's ugly appearance	vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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