Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 67

You are exceedingly ugly," said the wild ducks, "but that will not matter if you do not want to marry one of our family."

Who acts: You, that · What happens: be, say, not matter, not want, marry · To what, where: wild ducks, one · 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 (You, that), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 ugly	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ugly	cop
3	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	4 ugly	advmod
4	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ugly	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ducks	det
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ducks	amod
10	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ducks	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 ducks	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 matter	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 matter	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 matter	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 matter	advmod
17	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ugly	conj
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 want	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 want	nsubj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 want	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 want	advmod
22	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 matter	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 marry	mark
24	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 want	xcomp
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 marry	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 family	case
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 family	nmod:poss
28	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 one	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ugly	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ugly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	You		exceedingly, ugly property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	You not said here	the wild ducks		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duck=Topic
3	not matter	future	that			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	not want a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	one of our family		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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