Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 27
"Please yourself," said the old duck, and she went away.
Who acts: old duck, duck · What happens: say, go away · 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 (old duck, duck), 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 yourself | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 3 yourself | discourse |
| 3 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yourself | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 yourself | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 duck | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 duck | amod |
| 9 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old duck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go away | past | duck | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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