Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 152

It would be very sad, were I to relate all the misery and privations which the poor little duckling endured during the hard winter; but when it had passed, he found himself lying one morning in a moor, amongst the rushes.

Who acts: creature, I, poor little duckling, door · What happens: be, relate, endure, pass, find, lie · To what, where: misery, privations, creature, door, moor

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 (creature, I, poor little duckling, door), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sad	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sad	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 sad	advmod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct
7	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	conj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 were	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 relate	mark
10	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 were	advcl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 misery	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 misery	det
13	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 relate	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 privations	cc
15	privations	privation	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 misery	conj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 endured	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 duckling	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 duckling	amod
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 duckling	amod
20	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 endured	nsubj
21	endured	endure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 privations	acl:relcl
22	during	during	ADP	_	25 winter	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 winter	det
24	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 winter	amod
25	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 endured	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 passed	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 passed	cc
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 passed	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 passed	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 passed	aux
31	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sad	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 found	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 found	nsubj
34	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 passed	conj
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 found	obj
36	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 found	xcomp
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 morning	nummod
38	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lying	obl:unmarked
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 moor	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 moor	det
41	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lying	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 rushes	punct
43	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	45 rushes	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 rushes	det
45	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 found	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	creature				sad property	tree rules
2	be	past	I					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	relate	to-infinitive	I not said here	all misery and privations				vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misery=Theme
4	endure	past	the poor little duckling	privations		winter		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Circumstance
5	pass	past · perfect · passive		creature				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
6	find	past	door	door			amongst the rushes	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
7	lie	gerund	door not said here		a moor	morning		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in moor=Location

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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