Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 133
They were swans, and they curved their graceful necks, while their soft plumage shown with dazzling whiteness.
Who acts: ducklings · What happens: be, curve, show · To what, where: swans, graceful necks, soft plumage
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 (ducklings), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swans | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swans | cop |
| 3 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 curved | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 curved | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 curved | nsubj |
| 7 | curved | curve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swans | acl:relcl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 necks | nmod:poss |
| 9 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 necks | amod |
| 10 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 curved | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 plumage | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 plumage | mark |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 plumage | nmod:poss |
| 14 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 plumage | amod |
| 15 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 curved | obl |
| 16 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 plumage | acl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 whiteness | case |
| 18 | dazzling | dazzling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 whiteness | amod |
| 19 | whiteness | whiteness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shown | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swans | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ducklings = duckling | swans | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | curve | past | ducklings = duckling | ducklings's graceful necks | ducklings's soft plumage obl | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent neck=Material | |||
| 3 | show | participle | ducklings's soft plumage not said here | with dazzling whiteness | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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