Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 93

In the morning, the strange visitor was discovered, and the tom cat began to purr, and the hen to cluck.

Who acts: tom cat, hen · What happens: discover, begin, purr, cluck · To what, where: strange visitor

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 (tom cat, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 discovered	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 visitor	det
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 visitor	amod
7	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 discovered	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 discovered	aux:pass
9	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cat	det
13	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cat	compound
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 discovered	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 purr	mark
17	purr	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cluck	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cluck	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hen	det
21	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cluck	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 cluck	mark
23	cluck	cluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 discovered	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	discover	past · passive		the strange visitor	morning	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	begin	past	the tom cat			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	purr	to-infinitive	the tom cat not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cluck	to-infinitive	the hen			vn animal_sounds-38 «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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