Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 26

"I think I will sit on it a little while longer," said the duck; "as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing."

Who acts: I, duck, few days · What happens: think, sit, say, be · To what, where: little, egg, nothing · 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 (I, duck, few days), 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	_	3 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sit	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sit	aux
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 think	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sit	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 little	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sit	obl:unmarked
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 said	mark
12	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 said	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 longer	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 longer	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sit	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 duck	det
17	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 sat	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 sat	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sat	aux
23	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 think	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 long	advmod
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 sat	advmod
26	already	already	ADV	_	23 sat	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 nothing	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 days	det
29	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 days	amod
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 nothing	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 nothing	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 nothing	cop
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 sat	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	sit in a quote	future	I	a little	egg		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the duck			long property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	sit in a quote	present · perfect	the duck = duck			long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	future	a few days	nothing			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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