Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 140

Poor ugly creature, how gladly he would have lived even with the ducks had they only given him encouragement.

Who acts: air, Poor ugly creature, birds · What happens: live, have, give · To what, where: encouragement, air

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, Poor ugly creature, 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 creature	amod
2	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 creature	amod
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lived	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 lived	advmod
6	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	10 lived	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lived	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 lived	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 lived	aux
10	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 creature	acl:relcl
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 ducks	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 ducks	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ducks	det
14	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lived	obl
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 given	nsubj
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 given	advmod
18	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 had	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 given	iobj
20	encouragement	encouragement	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 given	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	live	would · perfect	air			with the ducks; gladly property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with duck=Location
2	have	past	Poor ugly creature				tree rules
3	give	participle	birds = bird	encouragement	air		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient encouragement=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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