Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 21

I was persuaded to hatch some once, and after all my care and trouble with the young ones, they were afraid of the water.

Who acts: I, care, my · What happens: persuade, hatch, be, care · To what, where: I, some

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 (I, care, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 persuaded	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 persuaded	aux:pass
3	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hatch	mark
5	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 persuaded	xcomp
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 hatch	obj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 hatch	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 afraid	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 afraid	cc
10	after	after	ADP	_	13 care	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 care	det:predet
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 care	nmod:poss
13	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 afraid	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 trouble	cc
15	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 care	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 ones	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ones	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ones	amod
19	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 trouble	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 care	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 afraid	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 afraid	cop
23	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 persuaded	advcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 afraid	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	persuade	past · passive		I			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	hatch	to-infinitive	I not said here	some		once property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent some=Product
3	is	past	care		after my care and trouble with the young ones	of the water; afraid property	tree rules
4	care		my				nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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