Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 155

They bore him onwards, until he found himself in a large garden, before he well knew how it had happened.

Who acts: birds, door, it · What happens: bear, find, know, happen · To what, where: door, large garden · 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 (birds, door, it), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bore	nsubj
2	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bore	obj
4	onwards	onwards	ADV	_	2 bore	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 found	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bore	parataxis
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 found	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 garden	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 garden	det
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 garden	amod
13	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 knew	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knew	nsubj
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 knew	advmod
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	conj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 happened	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 happened	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 happened	aux
22	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 knew	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past	birds = bird	door		onwards property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	find	past	door	door	a large garden		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	know	past	door			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	happen	past · perfect	it				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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