Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 81

He thrust his nose close to the duckling, showing his sharp teeth, and then, "splash, splash," he went into the water without touching him, "Oh," sighed the duckling, "how thankful I am for being so ugly; even a dog will not bite me."

Who acts: tongue, dog · What happens: thrust, show, go, touch, sigh, be · To what, where: nose, sharp teeth, water, tongue, duckling, cat · 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 (tongue, 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 thrust	nsubj
2	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nose	nmod:poss
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thrust	obj
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thrust	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 duckling	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 duckling	det
8	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 close	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 showing	punct
10	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thrust	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 teeth	nmod:poss
12	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 teeth	amod
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 showing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 went	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 then	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 splash	punct
19	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 splash	punct
21	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 splash	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 splash	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thrust	conj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 water	det
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
29	without	without	SCONJ	_	30 touching	mark
30	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 went	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 touching	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sighed	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 sighed	punct
34	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	37 sighed	discourse
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Oh	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 sighed	punct
37	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thrust	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 duckling	det
39	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sighed	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 thankful	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 thankful	punct
42	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 thankful	advmod
43	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sighed	parataxis
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 am	nsubj
45	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 thankful	cop
46	for	for	ADP	_	49 ugly	case
47	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 ugly	cop
48	so	so	ADV	_	49 ugly	advmod
49	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 am	obl
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 bite	punct
51	even	even	ADV	_	53 dog	advmod
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 dog	det
53	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 bite	nsubj
54	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 bite	aux
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 bite	advmod
56	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thrust	parataxis
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 bite	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	56 bite	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	56 bite	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thrust	past	tongue	tongue's nose			close property	tree rules
2	show	gerund	tongue not said here	tongue's sharp teeth				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient
3	go	past	tongue		the water	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location
4	touch	gerund	tongue not said here	tongue				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
5	sigh	past	tongue not said here	the duckling				tree rules
6	is in a quote	present					thankful property	tree rules
7	is in a quote	gerund					ugly property	tree rules
8	not bite in a quote	future	a dog	cat				vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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