Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 79
"Quack, quack, quack," grinned the ducks; but, the stork pretended not to hear.
Who acts: Quack, stork · What happens: grin, pretend, not hear · To what, where: ducks
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 (Quack, stork), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Quack | punct |
| 2 | Quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grinned | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 quack | punct |
| 4 | quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Quack | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quack | punct |
| 6 | quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Quack | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Quack | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 grinned | punct |
| 9 | grinned | grin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ducks | det |
| 11 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grinned | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 pretended | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 pretended | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 but | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stork | det |
| 16 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pretended | nsubj |
| 17 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grinned | conj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 hear | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 hear | mark |
| 20 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pretended | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grinned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grin | past | Quack and quack and quack | the ducks | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pretend | past | the stork | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not hear | to-infinitive | the stork not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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