Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 25
Yes, that is a turkey's egg; take my advice, leave it where it is and teach the other children to swim."
Who acts: that, egg · What happens: be, take, leave, teach, swim · To what, where: egg, advice, other children
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 (that, 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 egg | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 egg | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 egg | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 egg | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 turkey | det |
| 6 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 egg | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 turkey | case |
| 8 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 egg | parataxis |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 advice | nmod:poss |
| 12 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leave | punct |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 leave | obj |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 is | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 is | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 leave | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 teach | cc |
| 20 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 children | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 children | amod |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 teach | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 swim | mark |
| 25 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 teach | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 egg | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 egg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | a turkey's egg | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | my advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | advice | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | present | egg | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | teach speech: other | present | the other children | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | swim | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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