Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 59
The ducks pecked him, the chickens beat him, and the girl who fed the poultry kicked him with her feet.
Who acts: ducks, chickens, girl · What happens: peck, beat, feed, kick · To what, where: cat, poultry
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 (ducks, chickens, girl), 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 | 2 ducks | det |
| 2 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pecked | nsubj |
| 3 | pecked | peck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pecked | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beat | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chickens | det |
| 7 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 beat | nsubj |
| 8 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pecked | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 beat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kicked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kicked | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kicked | nsubj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 fed | nsubj |
| 15 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 girl | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 poultry | det |
| 17 | poultry | poultry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fed | obj |
| 18 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pecked | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kicked | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 feet | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 feet | nmod:poss |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 kicked | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pecked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peck | past | the ducks | cat | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | beat | present | the chickens | cat | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feed | past | the girl | the poultry | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poultry=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | kick | past | the girl | cat | with girl's feet | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with foot=Instrument |
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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