Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 169
"See," cried the youngest, "there is a new one;" and the rest were delighted, and ran to their father and mother, dancing and clapping their hands, and shouting joyously, "There is another swan come; a new one has arrived."
Who acts: rest, swan, new one · What happens: see, cry, be, run, dance, clap · To what, where: youngest new one, hands · 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 (rest, swan, new one), 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 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 7 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 one | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 youngest | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 delighted | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rest | det |
| 19 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 delighted | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 delighted | cop |
| 21 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cried | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ran | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ran | cc |
| 24 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 father | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 father | nmod:poss |
| 27 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ran | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 mother | cc |
| 29 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 father | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dancing | punct |
| 31 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 ran | advcl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 clapping | cc |
| 33 | clapping | clap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 dancing | conj |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hands | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 clapping | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 shouting | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 shouting | cc |
| 38 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 dancing | conj |
| 39 | joyously | joyously | ADV | _ | 38 shouting | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 is | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 is | punct |
| 42 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 43 is | expl |
| 43 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 shouting | conj |
| 44 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 swan | det |
| 45 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 come | nsubj |
| 46 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 is | ccomp |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 arrived | punct |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 one | det |
| 49 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 one | amod |
| 50 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 arrived | nsubj |
| 51 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 arrived | aux |
| 52 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 52 arrived | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the youngest new one | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the rest | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | run | past | to swans's father and mother result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to father=Result | |||||
| 6 | dance | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | clap | gerund | swans's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | |||||
| 8 | shout speech: express | gerund | joyously property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | be in a quote | present | there | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | come in a quote | infinitive | another swan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 11 | arrive in a quote | present · perfect | a new one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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