Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 148
He flew first into the butter-cask, then into the meal-tub, and out again.
Who acts: warmth · What happens: fly · To what, where: butter cask
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), 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 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 flew | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 cask | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cask | det |
| 6 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cask | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 butter | punct |
| 8 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tub | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 tub | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 tub | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tub | det |
| 13 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tub | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 meal | punct |
| 15 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cask | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 out | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 out | cc |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 flew | advmod |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 out | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | warmth | into the butter cask and the meal tub result; first, out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cask=Result |
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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