Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 48
"Yes, but he is so big and ugly," said the spiteful duck "and therefore he must be turned out."
Who acts: child, spiteful duck · What happens: be, say, turn out · To what, where: child · 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 (child, spiteful 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 13 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 big | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 big | cc |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 big | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 big | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 big | advmod |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Yes | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ugly | cc |
| 10 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 big | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 duck | det |
| 15 | spiteful | spiteful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 duck | amod |
| 16 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 duck | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 turned | cc |
| 19 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 23 turned | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 turned | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 turned | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 turned | aux:pass |
| 23 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 turned | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | child | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | child not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the spiteful duck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | turn out in a quote | must · passive | child | therefore property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: 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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