Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 9

At length one shell cracked, and then another, and from each egg came a living creature that lifted its head and cried, "Peep, peep." "

Who acts: one shell, living creature · What happens: crack, come, lift, cry · To what, where: another, length, living creature, egg, head, Peep

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 shell, living creature), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cracked	obl
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 shell	nummod
4	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cracked	nsubj
5	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 another	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 another	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 another	advmod
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 cracked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 egg	case
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 egg	det
14	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cracked	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 creature	det
17	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 creature	amod
18	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 lifted	nsubj
20	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 creature	acl:relcl
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lifted	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cried	cc
24	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lifted	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Peep	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Peep	punct
27	Peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cried	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 peep	punct
29	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Peep	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 cracked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	crack	past	one shell	another	length	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
2	come	past	one shell not said here	a living creature	each egg	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location creature=Theme
3	lift	past	a living creature	creature's head		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past	a living creature not said here	Peep and peep		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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