Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 97
So the duckling was allowed to remain on trial for three weeks, but there were no eggs.
Who acts: duckling, eggs · What happens: allow, remain, be · To what, where: duckling, trial
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 (duckling, eggs), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 allowed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 duckling | det |
| 3 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 allowed | aux:pass |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 remain | mark |
| 7 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allowed | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 trial | case |
| 9 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remain | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 weeks | case |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 weeks | nummod |
| 12 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 remain | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 were | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 were | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 were | expl |
| 16 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 allowed | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 eggs | det |
| 18 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 were | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past · passive | the duckling | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | the duckling not said here | trial | week | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trial=Location | |||
| 3 | be | past | no eggs | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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