Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 51

I think he will grow up pretty, and perhaps be smaller; he has remained too long in the egg, and therefore his figure is not properly formed;" and then she stroked his neck and smoothed the feathers, saying, "It is a drake, and therefore not of so much consequence.

Who acts: I, child, mother, figure · What happens: think, grow up, be, remain, not form, stroke · To what, where: egg, figure, neck, feathers, drake · 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 (I, child, mother, figure), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grow	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 think	ccomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 grow	compound:prt
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 smaller	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 smaller	cc
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	12 smaller	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 smaller	cop
12	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 think	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 remained	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 remained	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 remained	aux
16	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 think	parataxis
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 remained	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 egg	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 egg	det
21	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 remained	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 formed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 formed	cc
24	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	30 formed	advmod
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 figure	nmod:poss
26	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 formed	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 formed	aux:pass
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 formed	advmod
29	properly	properly	ADV	_	30 formed	advmod
30	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 remained	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 stroked	cc
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 stroked	advmod
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 stroked	nsubj
36	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 think	conj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 neck	nmod:poss
38	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stroked	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 smoothed	cc
40	smoothed	smooth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 stroked	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 feathers	det
42	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 smoothed	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 saying	punct
44	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 smoothed	advcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 drake	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 drake	punct
47	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 drake	nsubj
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 drake	cop
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 drake	det
50	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 saying	ccomp
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 consequence	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 consequence	cc
53	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	58 consequence	advmod
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	58 consequence	advmod
55	of	of	ADP	_	58 consequence	case
56	so	so	ADV	_	57 much	advmod
57	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 consequence	amod
58	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stroked	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	grow up	future	child				pretty property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	infinitive	I not said here				perhaps, small property	tree rules
4	remain	present · perfect	child		the egg		long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in egg=Location
5	not form	present · passive		child's figure			properly, therefore property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
6	stroke in a quote	past	mother	child's neck		then	of much consequence	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Experiencer
7	smooth in a quote	past	mother not said here	the feathers				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
8	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	mother not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	is a	present	figure	a drake				tree rules
10	figure		child					nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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