Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 138

He knew not the names of these birds, nor where they had flown, but he felt towards them as he had never felt for any other bird in the world.

Who acts: air · What happens: not know, fly, feel, not feel, name · To what, where: names, birds

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), 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 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knew	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 names	det
5	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 birds	case
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 birds	det
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 names	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flown	punct
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 flown	cc
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 flown	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flown	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 flown	aux
14	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 knew	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 felt	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 felt	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 felt	nsubj
18	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
19	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 felt	obl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 felt	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 felt	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 felt	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 felt	advmod
25	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 felt	advcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 bird	case
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 bird	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bird	amod
29	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 felt	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bird	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	past	air	the names of this birds		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
2	fly	past · perfect · passive		birds = bird		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	feel	past	air		towards birds = bird	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	not feel	past · perfect	air		for any other bird in the world	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for bird=Theme
5	name			this birds		nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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