Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 19

They are the image of their father, who is so unkind, he never comes to see."

Who acts: others, image, room · What happens: be, not come, see · To what, where: image

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 (others, image, room), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 image	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 image	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 image	det
4	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 father	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 image	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 unkind	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 unkind	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 unkind	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 unkind	advmod
12	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 image	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 comes	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 comes	advmod
16	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 unkind	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 comes	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 image	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 image	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	others = other	the image	of others's father	tree rules
2	is	present	the image		unkind property	tree rules
3	not come	present	room			tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	room not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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