Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 68

Poor thing! he had no thoughts of marriage; all he wanted was permission to lie among the rushes, and drink some of the water on the moor.

Who acts: Poor thing, cat · What happens: have, want, be, lie, drink, think · To what, where: thoughts, permission, rushes, some, moor, marriage

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 (Poor thing, 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thing	amod
2	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 thing	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 thoughts	det
7	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 marriage	case
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thoughts	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 permission	punct
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 permission	det
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 all	acl:relcl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 permission	cop
15	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 lie	mark
17	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 permission	acl
18	among	among	ADP	_	20 rushes	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rushes	det
20	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lie	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drink	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drink	cc
23	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	conj
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 drink	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 some	nmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 moor	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 moor	det
30	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drink	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Poor thing	no thoughts of marriage		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient
2	want	past	cat			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a	past	Poor thing not said here	all permission		tree rules
4	lie	to-infinitive	Poor thing not said here		the rushes	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among rush=Location
5	drink	infinitive	Poor thing not said here	some	the moor	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
6	think			marriage		nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=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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