Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 37

"Oh," said the mother, "that is not a turkey; how well he uses his legs, and how upright he holds himself!

Who acts: mother, that, water · What happens: say, not be, use, hold · To what, where: turkey, legs, water · 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 (mother, that, water), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 turkey	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 turkey	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 turkey	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 turkey	det
14	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mother	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 uses	punct
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 well	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 uses	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 uses	nsubj
19	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 legs	nmod:poss
21	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 uses	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 holds	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 holds	cc
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 upright	advmod
25	upright	upright	ADV	_	27 holds	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 holds	nsubj
27	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 uses	conj
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 holds	obj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	the mother and a turkey			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is a in a quote	present	that	a turkey		tree rules
3	use in a quote	present	water	water's legs	well property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
4	hold in a quote	present	water	water	upright property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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