Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 62
So he closed his eyes, and flew still farther, until he came out on a large moor, inhabited by wild ducks.
Who acts: cat · What happens: close, fly, come out, inhabit · To what, where: eyes, large moor
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 (cat), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 closed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 closed | nsubj |
| 3 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 closed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flew | cc |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 closed | parataxis |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 farther | advmod |
| 10 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 flew | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 moor | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 moor | det |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 moor | amod |
| 19 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 inhabited | punct |
| 21 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 moor | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 ducks | case |
| 23 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ducks | amod |
| 24 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 inhabited | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past | cat | cat's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | far property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come out | past | cat | a large moor | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | inhabit | participle | a large moor not said here | by wild ducks | tree rules |
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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