Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 137

Could he ever forget those beautiful, happy birds; and when at last they were out of his sight, he dived under the water, and rose again almost beside himself with excitement.

Who acts: air, birds · What happens: forget, be, dive, rise · To what, where: beautiful happy birds, sight, water

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, birds), 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	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forget	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 forget	advmod
4	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 birds	det
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 birds	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 beautiful	punct
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 birds	amod
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forget	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 last	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 last	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 last	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forget	conj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sight	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sight	cop
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 sight	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 sight	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sight	nmod:poss
20	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 last	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dived	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 dived	nsubj
23	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	parataxis
24	under	under	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dived	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rose	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rose	cc
29	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dived	conj
30	again	again	ADV	_	29 rose	advmod
31	almost	almost	ADV	_	33 himself	advmod
32	beside	beside	ADP	_	33 himself	case
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 rose	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 excitement	case
35	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rose	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	could	air	that beautiful happy birds		ever		tree rules
2	is	past	birds = bird		air's sight			tree rules
3	dive	past	air		the water			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under water=Location
4	rise	past	air not said here			again	beside air; with excitement	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside himself=Location

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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