Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 55

And so they made themselves comfortable; but the poor duckling, who had crept out of his shell last of all, and looked so ugly, was bitten and pushed and made fun of, not only by the ducks, but by all the poultry. "

Who acts: ducklings, poor duckling · What happens: make, creep out, look, bite, push · To what, where: ducklings, shell, fun

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, poor 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 made	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 made	obj
6	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 duckling	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 duckling	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 duckling	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 duckling	amod
11	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crept	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 crept	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 crept	aux
15	crept	creep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 duckling	acl:relcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 shell	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 shell	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 shell	nmod:poss
19	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crept	obl
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 shell	amod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 last	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looked	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 looked	cc
25	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 ugly	advmod
27	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 looked	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bitten	punct
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 bitten	aux:pass
30	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 looked	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pushed	cc
32	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 bitten	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 made	cc
34	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 bitten	conj
35	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 made	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	42 ducks	case
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 ducks	punct
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 ducks	advmod
39	only	only	ADV	_	42 ducks	advmod
40	by	by	ADP	_	42 ducks	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 ducks	det
42	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 fun	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 poultry	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 poultry	cc
45	by	by	ADP	_	48 poultry	case
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 poultry	det:predet
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 poultry	det
48	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	parataxis
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 poultry	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 poultry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	ducklings = duckling	ducklings = duckling	the poor duckling obl; comfortable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product
2	creep out	past · perfect	the poor duckling	child's shell		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location shell=Theme
3	look	past	ducklings = duckling not said here		ugly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	bite	past · passive				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»
5	push	participle				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	make	participle		fun of the ducks		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product

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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