Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 99
The duckling thought that others might hold a different opinion on the subject, but the hen would not listen to such doubts. "
Who acts: duckling, others, hen · What happens: think, hold, not listen · To what, where: different opinion, subject · 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 (duckling, others, 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 duckling | det |
| 2 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 hold | mark |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hold | nsubj |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hold | aux |
| 7 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 opinion | det |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 opinion | amod |
| 10 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hold | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 subject | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 subject | det |
| 13 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hold | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 listen | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 listen | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hen | det |
| 17 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 listen | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 listen | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 listen | advmod |
| 20 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 doubts | case |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 doubts | amod |
| 23 | doubts | doubt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 listen | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 listen | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the duckling | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hold | might | others | a different opinion | the subject | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme on subject=Location | |||
| 3 | not listen | would | the hen | to such doubts | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to doubt=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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