--- title: Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joy… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, "I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling." Who acts: sun, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/175/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Ugly Duckling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/) / 175 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 175 Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, "I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling." **Who acts:** sun, I · **What happens:** rustle, curve, cry, not dream, be · **To what, where:** feathers, slender neck, depths, ugly duckling · **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 (sun, I), 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:pg27200:201:175 # text = Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, "I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling." 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rustled rustle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 curved curve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 slender slender ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 joyfully joyfully ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 depths depth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 dreamed dream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 while while SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 duckling duckling NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rustle** | past | sun | sun's feathers | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **curve** | past | sun *not said here* | sun's slender neck | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent neck=Material | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | | | | the depths of sun's heart | | joyfully *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **dream** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | | of such happiness; as this | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | I | a ugly duckling | | | | | tree rules | 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 174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/174/) - next →: [Under the Willow-tree, part 1, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/1/) - ↑ back to [The Ugly Duckling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/)