Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 2
The stork walking about on his long red legs chattered in the Egyptian language, which he had learnt from his mother.
Who acts: stork · What happens: walk, chatter, learn · To what, where: long red legs, Egyptian language
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 (stork), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stork | det |
| 2 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stork | acl |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 walking | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 legs | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 legs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 legs | amod |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 legs | amod |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walking | obl |
| 10 | chattered | chatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 legs | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 language | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 language | det |
| 13 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 language | amod |
| 14 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chattered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 learnt | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 learnt | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 learnt | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 learnt | aux |
| 19 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 language | acl:relcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 mother | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 learnt | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stork | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | the stork not said here | stork's long red legs | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | chatter | participle | stork's long red legs not said here | the Egyptian language | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in language=Location | ||||
| 3 | learn | past · perfect · passive | the Egyptian language | from stork's mother | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from mother=Source |
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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