Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 34

On the next day the weather was delightful, and the sun shone brightly on the green burdock leaves, so the mother duck took her young brood down to the water, and jumped in with a splash. "

Who acts: weather, sun, mother duck · What happens: be, shine, take, jump in · To what, where: green burdock leaves, young brood, water

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 (weather, sun, mother 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 delightful	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 weather	det
6	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 delightful	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 delightful	cop
8	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shone	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shone	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shone	nsubj
13	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 delightful	parataxis
14	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	13 shone	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	19 leaves	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 leaves	det
17	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 leaves	amod
18	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 leaves	compound
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shone	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	25 took	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 duck	det
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 duck	compound
24	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	nsubj
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 delightful	parataxis
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 brood	nmod:poss
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 brood	amod
28	brood	brood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
29	down	down	ADV	_	25 took	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 water	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 water	det
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 jumped	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 jumped	cc
35	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 took	conj
36	in	in	ADV	_	35 jumped	advmod
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 splash	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 splash	det
39	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 jumped	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 delightful	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 delightful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the weather			day	delightful property	tree rules
2	shine	past	the sun		the green burdock leaves		brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leaf=Location
3	take	past	the mother duck	duck's young brood	the water		down property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brood=Theme to water=Destination
4	jump in	past	the mother duck not said here				with a splash	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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