Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 28

At last the large egg broke, and a young one crept forth crying, "Peep, peep."

Who acts: last large egg, young one · What happens: break, creep, cry · To what, where: Peep

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 (last large egg, young one), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 egg	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 egg	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 egg	amod
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	nsubj
6	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crept	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 crept	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crept	nsubj
12	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 broke	conj
13	forth	forth	ADV	_	12 crept	advmod
14	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 crept	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Peep	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Peep	punct
17	Peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crying	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 peep	punct
19	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Peep	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 broke	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break	past	the last large egg			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	creep	past	a young one		forth property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	gerund	a young one not said here	Peep and peep		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peep=Topic

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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