Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 166
To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.
What happens: bear, be, hatch · To what, where: nest, consequence
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:13802): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 born | mark |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 born | aux:pass |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 consequence | csubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 nest | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 duck | det |
| 6 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 duck | case |
| 8 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 born | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 farmyard | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 farmyard | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 farmyard | det |
| 12 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 born | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 farmyard | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 consequence | cop |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 consequence | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 consequence | det |
| 17 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bird | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bird | det |
| 20 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 consequence | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hatched | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 hatched | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hatched | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 hatched | aux:pass |
| 25 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 consequence | advcl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 egg | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 swan | det |
| 28 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 egg | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 swan | case |
| 30 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hatched | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 consequence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | to-infinitive · passive | a duck's nest | in a farmyard | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | ||||
| 2 | is | present | of no consequence; to a bird | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hatch a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | consequence | from a swan's egg | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product from egg=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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