Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 170

Then they threw more bread and cake into the water, and said, "The new one is the most beautiful of all; he is so young and pretty."

Who acts: swans, new one, water · What happens: throw, say, be · To what, where: more bread, water · 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 (swans, new one, water), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 threw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bread	amod
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cake	cc
7	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bread	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 beautiful	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 beautiful	punct
16	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 one	det
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	amod
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beautiful	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 beautiful	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 beautiful	det
21	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	22 beautiful	advmod
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 beautiful	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 young	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 young	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 young	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 young	advmod
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 threw	advcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pretty	cc
31	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	29 young	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	swans = swan	more bread and cake	then	into the water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer bread=Theme into water=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	swans = swan not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	the new one			of all; beautiful property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	water			young property	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.

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