Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 159
The duckling remembered the lovely birds, and felt more strangely unhappy than ever.
Who acts: duckling · What happens: remember, feel · To what, where: lovely birds
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 (duckling), 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 duckling | det |
| 2 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 birds | det |
| 5 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 birds | amod |
| 6 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remembered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 felt | cc |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | conj |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 unhappy | advmod |
| 11 | strangely | strangely | ADV | _ | 12 unhappy | advmod |
| 12 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 felt | xcomp |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 ever | case |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 unhappy | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | the duckling | the lovely birds | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | the duckling not said here | unhappy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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