Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 20
"Let me see the egg that will not break," said the duck; "I have no doubt it is a turkey's egg.
Who acts: duck, egg · What happens: let, see, not break, say, have, be · To what, where: duck, egg, doubt · 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 (duck, egg), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 egg | det |
| 6 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 break | obj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 break | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 break | advmod |
| 10 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 egg | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 duck | det |
| 15 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 doubt | det |
| 21 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 egg | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 egg | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 turkey | det |
| 25 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 egg | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 turkey | case |
| 27 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 doubt | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | the duck = duck | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | the duck = duck not said here | the egg | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not break in a quote | future | the egg | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Patient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the duck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | the duck = duck | no doubt | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | egg | a turkey's egg | 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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