Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 165
His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan.
Who acts: better · What happens: look, image
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 (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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 image | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 image | amod |
| 3 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 bird | punct |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 bird | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bird | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dark | punct |
| 10 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bird | amod |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 image | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ugly | punct |
| 13 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bird | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 disagreeable | cc |
| 15 | disagreeable | disagreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ugly | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 disagreeable | xcomp |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 look | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 swan | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 swan | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 swan | det |
| 22 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 swan | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 beautiful | cc |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 graceful | conj |
| 25 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 image | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 image | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | image | better = good | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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/pg27200/201/165/