Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 69

After he had been on the moor two days, there came two wild geese, or rather goslings, for they had not been out of the egg long, and were very saucy. "

Who acts: cat, geese · What happens: be, come, not be · To what, where: two wild geese, egg

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, geese), 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	After	after	ADP	_	7 moor	case
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 moor	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 moor	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 moor	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 moor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moor	det
7	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 moor	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 moor	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 came	expl
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 geese	nummod
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 geese	amod
15	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 goslings	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 goslings	cc
18	rather	rather	ADV	_	19 goslings	advmod
19	goslings	gosling	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 geese	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 long	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	30 long	case
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 long	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 long	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 long	advmod
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 long	cop
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 egg	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 egg	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 egg	det
29	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 long	obl
30	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 came	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 saucy	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 saucy	cc
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 saucy	cop
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 saucy	advmod
35	saucy	saucy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 came	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 saucy	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 saucy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	cat			after the moor; day		tree rules
2	come	past		two wild geese or goslings	there			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location goose=Theme
3	not is	past · perfect	geese = goose		the egg		long property	tree rules
4	is	past					saucy property	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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