Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 95
Oh what a prize!" she exclaimed, "I hope it is not a drake, for then I shall have some duck's eggs.
Who acts: hen, I, prize · What happens: exclaim, hope, not be, have · To what, where: prize, drake, eggs · 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, I, prize), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 prize | discourse |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 prize | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 prize | det |
| 4 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 prize | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 prize | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hope | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 hope | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 hope | nsubj |
| 12 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 drake | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 drake | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 drake | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 drake | det |
| 17 | drake | drake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hope | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 then | case |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 have | obl |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hope | conj |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 duck | det |
| 25 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 duck | case |
| 27 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 have | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | hen | what prize | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | not is a | present | prize | a drake | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | shall | I | some duck's eggs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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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