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title: The duckling thought that others might hold a different opinion on t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The duckling thought that others might hold a different opinion on the subject, but the hen would not listen to such doubts. " Who acts: duckling, others, hen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 99

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The duckling thought that others might hold a different opinion on the subject, but the hen would not listen to such doubts. "

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**Who acts:** duckling, others, hen · **What happens:** think, hold, not listen · **To what, where:** different opinion, subject · **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, others, hen), 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:pg27200:201:99
# text = The duckling thought that others might hold a different opinion on the subject, but the hen would not listen to such doubts. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	duckling	duckling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	doubts	doubt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the duckling |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | might | others | a different opinion |  | the subject |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme on subject=Location |
| 3 | **not** **listen** | would | the hen |  |  |  |  | to such doubts | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to doubt=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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