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title: And so they made themselves comfortable; but the poor duckling, who… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And so they made themselves comfortable; but the poor duckling, who had crept out of his shell last of all, and looked so ugly, was bitten and pushed and made fun of, not only by the ducks, but by all the poultry. " Who acts: ducklings, poor duckling. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian And
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 55

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And so they made themselves comfortable; but the poor duckling, who had crept out of his shell last of all, and looked so ugly, was bitten and pushed and made fun of, not only by the ducks, but by all the poultry. "

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**Who acts:** ducklings, poor duckling · **What happens:** make, creep out, look, bite, push · **To what, where:** ducklings, shell, fun

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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 (ducklings, poor duckling), 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:pg27200:201:55
# text = And so they made themselves comfortable; but the poor duckling, who had crept out of his shell last of all, and looked so ugly, was bitten and pushed and made fun of, not only by the ducks, but by all the poultry. "
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	duckling	duckling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	crept	creep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
35	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
39	only	only	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	48	det:predet	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	poultry	poultry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	48	punct	_	_
50	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | ducklings *= duckling* | ducklings *= duckling* |  |  |  | the poor duckling *obl*; comfortable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product |
| 2 | **creep out** | past · perfect | the poor duckling | child's shell |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location shell=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past | ducklings *= duckling* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ugly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **bite** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP» |
| 5 | **push** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | participle |  | fun of the ducks |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product |

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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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