Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 175

Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, "I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling."

Who acts: sun, I · What happens: rustle, curve, cry, not dream, be · To what, where: feathers, slender neck, depths, ugly duckling · 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 (sun, I), 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 rustled	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rustled	nsubj
3	rustled	rustle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feathers	nmod:poss
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rustled	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 curved	punct
7	curved	curve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rustled	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 neck	nmod:poss
9	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 neck	amod
10	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 curved	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cried	cc
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rustled	parataxis
14	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	13 cried	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 depths	punct
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 depths	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 depths	det
18	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cried	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 heart	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 heart	nmod:poss
21	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 depths	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dreamed	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 dreamed	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 dreamed	nsubj
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 dreamed	advmod
26	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cried	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 happiness	case
28	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 happiness	amod
29	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dreamed	obl
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 this	case
31	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 dreamed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 duckling	punct
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 duckling	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 duckling	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 duckling	cop
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 duckling	det
37	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 duckling	amod
38	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rustled	parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 duckling	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 duckling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rustle	past	sun	sun's feathers		then		tree rules
2	curve	past	sun not said here	sun's slender neck				vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent neck=Material
3	cry speech: express	past			the depths of sun's heart		joyfully property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not dream in a quote	past	I				of such happiness; as this	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	past	I	a ugly duckling				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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