Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 38

He is my own child, and he is not so very ugly after all if you look at him properly.

Who acts: water, you · What happens: be, not be, look · To what, where: own child

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 (water, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 child	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 child	cop
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 child	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ugly	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ugly	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ugly	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 ugly	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 ugly	advmod
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 ugly	advmod
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 ugly	advmod
13	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	conj
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 ugly	obl
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 look	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 look	nsubj
18	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 ugly	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 look	obl
21	properly	properly	ADV	_	18 look	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	water	my own child			tree rules
2	not is	present	water		after all	ugly property	tree rules
3	look a condition, not said to happen	present	you			at water; properly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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