Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 91
The hen had very short legs, so she was called "Chickie short legs."
Who acts: hen · What happens: have, call · To what, where: short legs, hen · 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 (hen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hen | det |
| 2 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 short | advmod |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 legs | amod |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 called | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | aux:pass |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | parataxis |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 legs | punct |
| 13 | Chickie | Chickie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 legs | compound |
| 14 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 legs | amod |
| 15 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 called | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the hen | short legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | past · passive | hen | Chickie short legs obl | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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