Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 163

"Kill me," said the poor bird; and he bent his head down to the surface of the water, and awaited death.

Who acts: poor bird, better · What happens: kill, say, bend down, await · To what, where: poor bird, head · 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 (poor bird, better), 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	_	2 Kill	punct
2	Kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Kill	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Kill	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Kill	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bird	amod
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 bent	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bent	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bent	nsubj
13	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bent	obj
16	down	down	ADV	_	13 bent	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 surface	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 surface	det
19	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bent	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 water	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 surface	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 death	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 death	cc
25	awaited	await	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 death	amod
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bent	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill in a quote	infinitive		the poor bird = bird		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the poor bird			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bend down	past	better = good	better's head	to the surface of the water result; awaited death obl; down property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent head=Patient to surface=Result
4	await	participle				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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/163/