Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 146

The warmth revived the poor little creature; but when the children wanted to play with him, the duckling thought they would do him some harm; so he started up in terror, fluttered into the milk-pan, and splashed the milk about the room.

Who acts: warmth, children, duckling, ducklings · What happens: revive, want, play, think, do, start up · To what, where: poor little creature, child, terror, milk pan, milk · 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 (warmth, children, duckling, ducklings), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 warmth	det
2	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 revived	nsubj
3	revived	revive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 creature	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 creature	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 creature	amod
7	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 revived	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 wanted	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 wanted	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 wanted	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 revived	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 play	mark
15	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wanted	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 play	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 duckling	det
20	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wanted	conj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thought	ccomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 do	obj
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 harm	det
27	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 do	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 started	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 started	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 started	nsubj
31	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 revived	conj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 started	compound:prt
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 terror	case
34	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 started	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fluttered	punct
36	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 terror	acl
37	into	into	ADP	_	41 pan	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 pan	det
39	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 pan	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 milk	punct
41	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fluttered	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 splashed	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 splashed	cc
44	splashed	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 revived	parataxis
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 milk	det
46	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 splashed	obj
47	about	about	ADP	_	49 room	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 room	det
49	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 splashed	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 revived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	revive	past	the warmth	the poor little creature			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent creature=Patient
2	want	past	the children				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	the children not said here			with child	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
4	think speech: other	past	the duckling				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	do	would	ducklings = duckling	child			tree rules
6	start up	past	warmth		terror		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	flutter	participle		terror not said here	the milk pan		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	splash	past		the milk		about the room	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent milk=Theme about room=Destination

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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