Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 45

Come, now, don't turn your toes, a well-bred duckling spreads his feet wide apart, just like his father and mother, in this way; now bend your neck, and say 'quack.'"

Who acts: you, bred duckling · What happens: come, not turn, breed, spread, bend, say · To what, where: toes, feet, neck, quack · 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, bred duckling), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 turn	advmod
7	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 toes	nmod:poss
9	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turn	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spreads	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 duckling	det
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 bred	advmod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 well	punct
14	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 duckling	amod
15	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spreads	nsubj
16	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 feet	nmod:poss
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 spreads	obj
19	wide	wide	ADV	_	20 apart	advmod
20	apart	apart	ADV	_	16 spreads	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 father	punct
22	just	just	ADV	_	25 father	advmod
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 father	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spreads	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 mother	cc
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 father	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 way	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 way	det
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 father	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 bend	punct
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 bend	advmod
34	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	parataxis
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 neck	nmod:poss
36	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bend	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 say	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 say	cc
39	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	34 bend	conj
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	41 quack	punct
41	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 say	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 bend	punct
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	34 bend	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here		now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not turn	infinitive · do-support	you not said here	your toes			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent toe=Theme
3	breed	participle				well property	tree rules
4	spread	present	a bred duckling	child's feet		apart property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foot=Theme
5	bend	infinitive		your neck	now		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent neck=Material
6	say speech: assert	infinitive		quack			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent quack=Topic

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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