Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 94

"What is that noise about?" said the old woman, looking round the room, but her sight was not very good; therefore, when she saw the duckling she thought it must be a fat duck, that had strayed from home. "

Who acts: noise, sight, that, woman · What happens: be, say, look, not be, see, think · To what, where: noise, duckling, fat duck, home · 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 (noise, sight, that, woman), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 noise	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 noise	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 noise	cop
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 noise	det
5	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
6	about	about	ADP	_	5 noise	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 noise	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 noise	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looking	punct
14	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
15	round	round	ADP	_	17 room	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 room	det
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looking	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 good	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 good	cc
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sight	nmod:poss
21	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 good	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 good	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 good	advmod
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 good	advmod
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 saw	punct
27	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	31 saw	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saw	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 saw	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 saw	nsubj
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 duckling	det
33	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saw	obj
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 thought	nsubj
35	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 duckling	acl:relcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 duck	nsubj
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 duck	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 duck	cop
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 duck	det
40	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 duck	amod
41	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 thought	ccomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 strayed	punct
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 strayed	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 strayed	aux
45	strayed	stray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 duck	conj
46	from	from	ADP	_	47 home	case
47	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 strayed	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 duck	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 duck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		that noise			tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	that noise				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	look	gerund	that noise not said here			round the room	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round room=Theme
4	not is	past	woman's sight			good property	tree rules
5	see	past	noise	the duckling		therefore property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer duckling=Stimulus
6	think speech: other	past	noise	the duckling not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot duckling=Theme
7	is a	must	sight	a fat duck			tree rules
8	stray	past · perfect	that		home		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from home=Trajectory
9	sight		woman				nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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