Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 50

"That is impossible, your grace," replied the mother; "he is not pretty; but he has a very good disposition, and swims as well or even better than the others.

Who acts: That, mother, child · What happens: be, reply, not be, have, swim · To what, where: good disposition · 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 (That, mother, child), 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	_	4 impossible	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 impossible	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	cop
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grace	punct
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grace	nmod:poss
7	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 impossible	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 pretty	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 pretty	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pretty	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 pretty	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 pretty	advmod
18	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 impossible	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 has	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 has	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 has	nsubj
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 disposition	det
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 good	advmod
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 disposition	amod
26	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 has	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 swims	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 swims	cc
29	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 has	conj
30	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	34 better	cc
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 as	fixed
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 better	cc
33	even	even	ADV	_	34 better	advmod
34	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 swims	conj
35	than	than	ADP	_	37 others	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 others	det
37	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 better	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That		impossible property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	the mother			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	present	child		pretty property	tree rules
4	have in a quote	present	child	a good disposition		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disposition=Patient
5	swim in a quote	present	child not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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