Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 46

The ducklings did as they were bid, but the other duck stared, and said, "Look, here comes another brood, as if there were not enough of us already! and what a queer looking object one of them is; we don't want him here," and then one flew out and bit him in the neck.

Who acts: ducklings, other duck, we, one · What happens: do, bid, stare, say, look, come · To what, where: ducklings, brood, looking object, child, neck · 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 (ducklings, other duck, we, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ducklings	det
2	ducklings	duckling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 bid	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bid	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bid	aux:pass
7	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stared	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 stared	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 duck	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 duck	amod
12	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stared	nsubj
13	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Look	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Look	punct
19	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 comes	punct
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 comes	advmod
22	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 Look	parataxis
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	24 brood	det
24	brood	brood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comes	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 enough	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 enough	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 were	mark
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 were	expl
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 enough	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 enough	advmod
31	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Look	parataxis
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 us	case
33	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 enough	obl
34	already	already	ADV	_	19 Look	advmod
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	41 object	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 object	cc
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 object	nsubj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 queer	det
39	queer	queer	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 object	nsubj
40	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 object	amod
41	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Look	obl
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 object	flat
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 them	case
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 one	nmod
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 object	cop
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 want	punct
47	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 want	nsubj
48	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 want	aux
49	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 want	advmod
50	want	want	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 want	obj
52	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 want	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 want	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 want	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 flew	cc
56	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	57 one	advmod
57	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 flew	nsubj
58	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
59	out	out	ADP	_	58 flew	compound:prt
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 bit	cc
61	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 flew	conj
62	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 bit	obj
63	in	in	ADP	_	65 neck	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 neck	det
65	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 bit	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the ducklings				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bid	past · passive		ducklings = duckling			tree rules
3	stare	past	the other duck				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: express	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	look in a quote	infinitive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	come in a quote	present		another brood	here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brood=Theme
7	not is in a quote	past				of us; enough property	tree rules
8	look in a quote	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
9	is a in a quote	present		looking object			tree rules
10	not want in a quote	present · do-support	we	child	here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
11	fly out	past	one				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	bite	past	one not said here	child	the neck		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in neck=Location

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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