Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 17
"One egg is not hatched yet," said the duck, "it will not break.
Who acts: duck, egg · What happens: not hatch, say, not break · To what, where: One egg · 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 (duck, egg), 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 | _ | 6 hatched | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 egg | nummod |
| 3 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hatched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hatched | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hatched | advmod |
| 6 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 hatched | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hatched | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hatched | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 duck | det |
| 12 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 break | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 break | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 break | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 break | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 break | advmod |
| 18 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 duck | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hatch in a quote | present · passive | One egg | yet | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the duck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not break in a quote | future | egg | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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