Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 79
He turned away his head to hide it under his wing, and at the same moment a large terrible dog passed quite near him.
Who acts: disturbance, large terrible dog · What happens: turn away, hide, pass · To what, where: head, wing
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 (disturbance, large terrible dog), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADP | _ | 2 turned | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hide | mark |
| 7 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 turned | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hide | obj |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 wing | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wing | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hide | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 passed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 passed | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 moment | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moment | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 moment | amod |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 passed | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dog | det |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dog | amod |
| 20 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dog | amod |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 passed | nsubj |
| 22 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | parataxis |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 passed | advmod |
| 24 | near | near | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 passed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | past | disturbance | disturbance's head | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | to-infinitive | disturbance not said here | head | disturbance's wing | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under wing=Location | |||
| 3 | pass | past | a large terrible dog | moment | near disturbance | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near he=Location |
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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