Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 35
Quack, quack," cried she, and one after another the little ducklings jumped in.
Who acts: Quack, one · What happens: cry, jump in · To what, where: duck
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 (Quack, 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 | Quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 quack | punct |
| 3 | quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Quack | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quack | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quack | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 jumped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 jumped | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 jumped | nsubj |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 another | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 one | nmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ducklings | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ducklings | amod |
| 15 | ducklings | duckling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 jumped | nsubj |
| 16 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 jumped | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Quack and quack | duck | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 2 | jump in in a quote | past | one after another | 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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