--- title: The warmth revived the poor little creature; but when the children w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The warmth revived the poor little creature; but when the children wanted to play with him, the duckling thought they would do him some harm; so he started up in terror, fluttered into the milk-pan, and splashed the milk about the room. Who acts: warmth, children, duckling, ducklings. 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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 (warmth, children, duckling, ducklings), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:201:146 # text = The warmth revived the poor little creature; but when the children wanted to play with him, the duckling thought they would do him some harm; so he started up in terror, fluttered into the milk-pan, and splashed the milk about the room. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 revived revive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 duckling duckling NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 27 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 fluttered flutter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 splashed splash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 about about ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **revive** | past | the warmth | the poor little creature | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent creature=Patient | | 2 | **want** | past | the children | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the children *not said here* | | | | | with child | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the duckling | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **do** | would | ducklings *= duckling* | child | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **start up** | past | warmth | | | terror | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **flutter** | participle | | terror *not said here* | | the milk pan | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **splash** | past | | the milk | | | | about the room | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent milk=Theme about room=Destination | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/145/) - next →: [sentence 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/147/) - ↑ back to [The Ugly Duckling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/)