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title: So the duckling left the cottage, and soon found water on which it c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So the duckling left the cottage, and soon found water on which it could swim and dive, but was avoided by all other animals, because of its ugly appearance. Who acts: duckling, cottage, other animals. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 125

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So the duckling left the cottage, and soon found water on which it could swim and dive, but was avoided by all other animals, because of its ugly appearance.

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**Who acts:** duckling, cottage, other animals · **What happens:** leave, find, swim, dive, avoid · **To what, where:** cottage, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, cottage, other animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:201:125
# text = So the duckling left the cottage, and soon found water on which it could swim and dive, but was avoided by all other animals, because of its ugly appearance.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	duckling	duckling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	dive	dive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	avoided	avoid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the duckling | the cottage |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | the duckling *not said here* | water |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent water=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **swim** | could | cottage |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Trajectory |
| 4 | **dive** | infinitive | cottage *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **avoid** | past · passive | all other animals |  |  |  |  | because cottage's ugly appearance | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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