Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 21

I am very curious to know what the ducks were so startled about; not about us, certainly, although I did say 'peep' to you pretty loudly.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, know, startle, say · To what, where: ducks, peep, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 curious	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 curious	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 curious	advmod
4	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 know	mark
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 curious	csubj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 startled	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ducks	det
9	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 startled	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 startled	aux:pass
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 startled	advmod
12	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 know	ccomp
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 startled	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 us	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 us	advmod
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 us	case
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 curious	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 certainly	punct
19	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 curious	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 say	punct
21	although	although	SCONJ	_	24 say	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 say	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 say	aux
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 curious	parataxis
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 peep	punct
26	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 say	obj
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 peep	punct
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 say	obl
30	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	31 loudly	advmod
31	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	24 say	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 curious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			certainly, curious property	tree rules
2	know	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	startle	past · passive		the ducks		about property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer what=Result
4	say speech: assert	past · do-support	I	peep	you	loudly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent peep=Topic to you=Recipient

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.

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