Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 78

How they terrified the poor duckling!

Who acts: rushes · What happens: terrify · To what, where: poor duckling

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 (rushes), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 terrified	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 terrified	nsubj
3	terrified	terrify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 duckling	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 duckling	amod
6	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 terrified	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	terrify	past	rushes = rush	the poor duckling					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus duckling=Experiencer

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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