Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 58

The poor duckling was driven about by every one; even his brothers and sisters were unkind to him, and would say, "Ah, you ugly creature, I wish the cat would get you," and his mother said she wished he had never been born.

Who acts: brothers, you, cat, mother · What happens: drive, be, say, creature, wish, get · To what, where: poor duckling, child, you, cat · 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 (brothers, you, cat, mother), 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	3 duckling	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 duckling	amod
3	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 driven	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 driven	aux:pass
5	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 one	case
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 one	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 driven	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 unkind	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	13 brothers	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brothers	nmod:poss
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 unkind	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sisters	cc
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 brothers	conj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 unkind	cop
17	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 driven	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 unkind	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 say	cc
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 say	aux
23	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 unkind	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 creature	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 creature	punct
26	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	30 creature	discourse
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Ah	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 creature	nsubj
29	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 creature	amod
30	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 say	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wish	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 wish	nsubj
33	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 unkind	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cat	det
35	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 get	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 get	aux
37	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 wish	ccomp
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 get	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 get	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 get	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 said	cc
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 mother	nmod:poss
43	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 said	nsubj
44	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 get	conj
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 wished	nsubj
46	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 said	ccomp
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 born	nsubj:pass
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 born	aux
49	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	51 born	advmod
50	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 born	aux:pass
51	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 wished	ccomp
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 driven	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	drive	past · passive		the poor duckling		about every one	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme about one=Destination
2	is	past	child's brothers and sisters		child	unkind property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	would	child's brothers and sisters not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	creature in a quote		you				tree rules
5	wish in a quote	present	child's brothers and sisters = brother				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	get in a quote	would	the cat	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
7	say speech: assert	past	child's mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	wish	past	mother				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	not bear	past · perfect · passive		cat			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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