Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 64
In the morning, when the wild ducks rose in the air, they stared at their new comrade. "
Who acts: wild ducks, eyes · What happens: rise, stare · To what, where: air
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 (wild ducks, eyes), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 rose | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ducks | det |
| 7 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ducks | amod |
| 8 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rose | nsubj |
| 9 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stared | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stared | nsubj |
| 15 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rose | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 comrade | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 comrade | amod |
| 19 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stared | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rose | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the wild ducks | the air | morning | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | |||
| 2 | stare | past | eyes = eye | at eyes's new comrade | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at comrade=Theme |
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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