Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 172
Then he felt quite ashamed, and hid his head under his wing; for he did not know what to do, he was so happy, and yet not at all proud.
Who acts: water · What happens: feel, hide, not know, do, be · To what, where: head, wing · 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 (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 felt | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 ashamed | advmod |
| 5 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hid | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hid | cc |
| 8 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | obj |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 wing | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wing | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 know | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 felt | conj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 do | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 know | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 happy | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 happy | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 happy | cop |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 happy | advmod |
| 27 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 know | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 proud | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 proud | cc |
| 30 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 34 proud | advmod |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 proud | advmod |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 all | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 proud | obl |
| 34 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | water | then | ashamed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hide | past | water not said here | water's head | water's wing | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Patient under wing=Location | |||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | water | happy 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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