Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 41

See, children, that is the way of the world," said the mother duck, whetting her beak, for she would have liked the eel's head herself. "

Who acts: you, that, mother duck, duck · What happens: see, be, say, whet, like · To what, where: children, way, mother duck, beak, head · 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 (you, that, mother duck, 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	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 children	punct
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 See	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 way	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 way	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 See	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 See	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 duck	det
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 duck	compound
17	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 whetting	punct
19	whetting	whet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 duck	acl
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 beak	nmod:poss
21	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 whetting	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 liked	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 liked	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 liked	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 liked	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 liked	aux
27	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 eel	det
29	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 head	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 eel	case
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 liked	obj
32	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 liked	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here	children		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	is a	present	that	the way	of the world	tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the mother duck		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duck=Topic
4	whet in a quote	gerund	the mother duck not said here	duck's beak		tree rules
5	like in a quote	would · perfect	duck	the eel's head	duck obl	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot head=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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