Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 83
And then he gobbled, and the ducks quacked, "Gobble, gobble; Quack, quack."
Who acts: boy, ducks · What happens: gobble, quack · To what, where: Quack, Gobble
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 (boy, ducks), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gobbled | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gobbled | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gobbled | nsubj |
| 4 | gobbled | gobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 quacked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 quacked | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ducks | det |
| 8 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 quacked | nsubj |
| 9 | quacked | quack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gobbled | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Gobble | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Gobble | punct |
| 12 | Gobble | gobble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quacked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gobble | punct |
| 14 | gobble | gobble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Gobble | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Quack | punct |
| 16 | Quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gobbled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 quack | punct |
| 18 | quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Quack | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 quack | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 quack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gobble | past | boy | Quack | then | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | quack | past | the ducks | Gobble and gobble | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gobble=Theme |
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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