Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 43

You must bow your heads prettily to that old duck yonder; she is the highest born of them all, and has Spanish blood, therefore, she is well off.

Who acts: You, duck · What happens: bow, be, bear, have · To what, where: heads, old duck, Spanish blood

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, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 bow	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bow	aux
3	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heads	nmod:poss
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bow	obj
6	prettily	prettily	ADV	_	10 duck	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 duck	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 duck	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 duck	amod
10	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bow	obl
11	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	10 duck	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 highest	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 highest	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 highest	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 highest	det
16	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 bow	parataxis
17	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 highest	acl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 born	obl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 them	nmod:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 has	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 has	cc
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bow	parataxis
24	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 blood	amod
25	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 therefore	punct
27	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	23 has	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 off	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 off	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 off	cop
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 off	advmod
32	off	off	ADV	_	23 has	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bow	must	You	your heads	that old duck		vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Topic to duck=Recipient
2	is	present	duck			high property	tree rules
3	bear	participle				of legs = leg	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	present		Spanish blood		therefore property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient
5	is	present	duck			off, well property	tree rules

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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