Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 139
He was not envious of these beautiful creatures, but wished to be as lovely as they.
Who acts: air · What happens: not be, wish, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | 4 envious | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 envious | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 envious | advmod |
| 4 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 creatures | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 creatures | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 creatures | amod |
| 8 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 envious | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wished | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 wished | cc |
| 11 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 envious | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 lovely | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lovely | cop |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 lovely | advmod |
| 15 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wished | ccomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 they | case |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lovely | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 envious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | air | of this beautiful creatures; envious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | air not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | as birds = bird; lovely property | tree rules |
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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