Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 15

I wonder how long this is to last, I am quite tired of it;" and she seated herself again on the nest.

Who acts: I, this, mother · What happens: wonder, be, seat · To what, where: mother, nest · 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 (I, this, mother), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wonder	nsubj
2	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 wonder	advmod
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 last	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 last	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 last	mark
8	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 long	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tired	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tired	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tired	cop
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 tired	advmod
13	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wonder	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tired	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 wonder	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 wonder	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seated	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seated	nsubj
20	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wonder	conj
21	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 seated	obj
22	again	again	ADV	_	20 seated	advmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 nest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 nest	det
25	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seated	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wonder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	present	I				long property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	this				last property	tree rules
3	is	present	I				of distance; tired property	tree rules
4	seat in a quote	past	mother	mother	the nest	again		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value

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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