Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 30

The duck stared at it and exclaimed, "It is very large and not at all like the others.

Who acts: duck, egg · What happens: stare, exclaim, be · 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 (duck, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stared	nsubj
3	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stared	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 exclaimed	cc
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stared	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 large	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 large	punct
10	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 large	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 large	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 large	advmod
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 exclaimed	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 all	cc
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 all	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 large	conj
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 others	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 others	det
20	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 all	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stare	past	the duck	at egg	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	exclaim speech: express	past	the duck not said here		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	egg	large property	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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