Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 160

"I will fly to those royal birds," he exclaimed, "and they will kill me, because I am so ugly, and dare to approach them; but it does not matter: better be killed by them than pecked by the ducks, beaten by the hens, pushed about by the maiden who feeds the poultry, or starved with hunger in the winter."

Who acts: thicket, birds, lark, it, maiden · What happens: fly, exclaim, kill, be, dare, approach · To what, where: lark, birds, better, ducks, poultry · 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 (thicket, birds, lark, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fly	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fly	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 birds	case
6	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 birds	det
7	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 birds	amod
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fly	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 exclaimed	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 exclaimed	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 exclaimed	nsubj
12	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 exclaimed	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 exclaimed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kill	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 kill	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 kill	aux
18	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fly	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 kill	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ugly	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 ugly	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 ugly	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 ugly	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 ugly	advmod
25	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kill	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dare	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dare	cc
28	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fly	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 approach	mark
30	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 dare	xcomp
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 approach	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 matter	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 matter	cc
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 matter	nsubj
35	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 matter	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 matter	advmod
37	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fly	parataxis
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 killed	punct
39	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 killed	nsubj:pass
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 killed	aux:pass
41	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 matter	conj
42	by	by	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 killed	obl
44	than	than	SCONJ	_	45 pecked	mark
45	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 killed	advcl
46	by	by	ADP	_	48 ducks	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 ducks	det
48	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 pecked	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 beaten	punct
50	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 ducks	acl
51	by	by	ADP	_	53 hens	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 hens	det
53	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 beaten	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 pushed	punct
55	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 killed	conj
56	about	about	ADV	_	55 pushed	advmod
57	by	by	ADP	_	59 maiden	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 maiden	det
59	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 pushed	obl
60	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 feeds	nsubj
61	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 maiden	acl:relcl
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 poultry	det
63	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 feeds	obj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 starved	punct
65	or	or	CCONJ	_	66 starved	cc
66	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 killed	conj
67	with	with	ADP	_	68 hunger	case
68	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 starved	obl
69	in	in	ADP	_	71 winter	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 winter	det
71	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 starved	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fly	punct
73	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly in a quote	future	thicket				to that royal birds	tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	past	thicket					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	kill in a quote	future	birds = bird	the lark = lark				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	the lark = lark				ugly property	tree rules
5	dare in a quote	infinitive						vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	approach in a quote	to-infinitive		birds = bird				vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	not matter in a quote	present · do-support	it					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
8	kill in a quote	infinitive · passive	birds = bird	better				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
9	peck in a quote	participle	birds = bird not said here				by the ducks	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
10	beat in a quote	participle		the ducks not said here			by the hens	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hen=Location
11	push about in a quote	participle	birds = bird not said here				by the maiden; about property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by maiden=Trajectory
12	feed in a quote	present	the maiden		the poultry			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poultry=Recipient
13	starve in a quote	participle	birds = bird not said here			winter	with hunger	tree rules

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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