Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 18
But just look at all the others, are they not the prettiest little ducklings you ever saw?
Who acts: you, others · What happens: look, not be, see · To what, where: prettiest little ducklings
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 (you, others), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 look | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 look | advmod |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 others | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 others | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 others | det |
| 7 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ducklings | punct |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ducklings | cop |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ducklings | nsubj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 ducklings | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ducklings | det |
| 13 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 ducklings | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ducklings | amod |
| 15 | ducklings | duckling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 others | nmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 saw | advmod |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ducklings | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | at all others | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at other=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | others = other | the prettiest little ducklings | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past | you | the prettiest little ducklings not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer duckling=Stimulus |
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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