Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 40

When they reached the farmyard, there was a great disturbance, two families were fighting for an eel's head, which, after all, was carried off by the cat. "

Who acts: Quack, great disturbance, two families, cat · What happens: reach, be, fight, carry off · To what, where: farmyard, great disturbance

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, great disturbance, two families, cat), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 was	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farmyard	det
5	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 disturbance	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 disturbance	amod
11	disturbance	disturbance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fighting	punct
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 families	nummod
14	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fighting	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fighting	aux
16	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 disturbance	acl
17	for	for	ADP	_	21 head	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 eel	det
19	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 head	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 eel	case
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carried	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 carried	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 carried	nsubj:pass
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 which	punct
25	after	after	ADP	_	26 all	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 which	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 which	punct
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 carried	aux:pass
29	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 fighting	advcl
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 carried	compound:prt
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 cat	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cat	det
33	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carried	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 carried	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 fighting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	Quack	the farmyard			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent farmyard=Theme
2	be	past	a great disturbance		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fight	past · progressive	two families	a great disturbance not said here			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disturbance=Co-Agent
4	carry off	past · passive	the cat			for a eel's head	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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