Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 135
As they mounted higher and higher in the air, the ugly little duckling felt quite a strange sensation as he watched them.
Who acts: ducklings, ugly little duckling, air · What happens: mount, feel, watch · To what, where: air, strange sensation, ducklings
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, ugly little duckling, air), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 mounted | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 felt | advcl |
| 4 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 mounted | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 higher | cc |
| 6 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 higher | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 duckling | det |
| 12 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 duckling | amod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 duckling | amod |
| 14 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 sensation | det:predet |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sensation | det |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sensation | amod |
| 19 | sensation | sensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | obj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 watched | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 watched | nsubj |
| 22 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 felt | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 watched | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | ducklings = duckling | the air | high property | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in air=Destination | |||
| 2 | feel | past | the ugly little duckling | quite strange sensation | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensation=Theme | ||||
| 3 | watch | past | air | ducklings = duckling | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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