Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 70
Listen, friend," said one of them to the duckling, "you are so ugly, that we like you very well.
Who acts: one, you, we · What happens: listen, say, be, like · To what, where: friend, you · 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 (one, you, we), 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 | Listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Listen | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 duckling | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 duckling | det |
| 12 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ugly | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 ugly | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 ugly | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 ugly | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 ugly | advmod |
| 18 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 like | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 like | mark |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 like | nsubj |
| 22 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 like | obj |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 well | advmod |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 like | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | infinitive | friend | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | one of geese to the duckling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | you | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | like | present | we | you | well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=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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