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title: "Yes, but he is so big and ugly," said the spiteful duck "and theref… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yes, but he is so big and ugly," said the spiteful duck "and therefore he must be turned out." Who acts: child, spiteful duck. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 48

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"Yes, but he is so big and ugly," said the spiteful duck "and therefore he must be turned out."

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**Who acts:** child, spiteful duck · **What happens:** be, say, turn out · **To what, where:** child · **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 (child, spiteful duck), 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:pg27200:201:48
# text = "Yes, but he is so big and ugly," said the spiteful duck "and therefore he must be turned out."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | child |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the spiteful duck |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **turn out** *in a quote* | must · passive |  | child |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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