Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 74

But the ducks did not understand what he said, and quacked amongst themselves, "We are all of the same opinion; namely, that he is stupid."

Who acts: ducks, horse, We · What happens: not understand, say, quack, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ducks, horse, We), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 understand	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ducks	det
3	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 understand	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 understand	advmod
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 said	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 quacked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 quacked	cc
12	quacked	quack	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
13	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	14 themselves	case
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 quacked	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 opinion	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 opinion	punct
17	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 opinion	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 opinion	cop
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 opinion	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 opinion	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 opinion	det
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 opinion	amod
23	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 quacked	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 namely	punct
25	namely	namely	ADV	_	6 understand	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stupid	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 stupid	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stupid	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 stupid	cop
30	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 understand	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 understand	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not understand	past · do-support	the ducks	namely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	horse		tree rules
3	quack	past		amongst ducks = duck	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	We	of the same opinion	tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	horse	stupid property	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.

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