Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 136

He whirled himself in the water like a wheel, stretched out his neck towards them, and uttered a cry so strange that it frightened himself.

Who acts: air, cry · What happens: whirl, stretch out, utter, frighten · To what, where: air, water, neck, cry

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 (air, cry), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whirled	nsubj
2	whirled	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 whirled	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whirled	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 wheel	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wheel	det
9	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stretched	punct
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 whirled	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 stretched	compound:prt
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 neck	nmod:poss
14	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stretched	obj
15	towards	towards	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stretched	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 uttered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 uttered	cc
19	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whirled	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cry	det
21	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 uttered	obj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 strange	advmod
23	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 uttered	xcomp
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 frightened	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 frightened	nsubj
26	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 strange	advcl
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 frightened	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 whirled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	whirl	past	air	air	the water like a wheel		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	stretch out	participle	air not said here	air's neck		towards ducklings = duckling	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient towards they=Recipient
3	utter speech: other	past	air not said here	a cry		strange property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic
4	frighten	past	cry	air			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer

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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