Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 22

I quacked and clucked, but all to no purpose.

Who acts: I · What happens: quack, cluck

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), 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	2 quacked	nsubj
2	quacked	quack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 clucked	cc
4	clucked	cluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 quacked	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 all	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 all	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 clucked	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 purpose	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 purpose	det
10	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 all	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 quacked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quack	past	I						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cluck	past	I not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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