Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 1

A duck once arrived from Portugal, but there were some who said she came from Spain, which is almost the same thing.

Who acts: duck, some, Spain · What happens: arrive, be, say, come · To what, where: Portugal, Spain, same thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duck, some, Spain), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	nsubj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 arrived	advmod
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Portugal	case
6	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 were	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 were	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 were	expl
10	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	conj
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 said	nsubj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 were	advcl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 Spain	case
17	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thing	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 thing	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 thing	cop
21	almost	almost	ADV	_	24 thing	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 thing	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 thing	amod
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Spain	appos
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	a duck		Portugal	once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from portugal=Initial_Location
2	be	past	a duck not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	some				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	past	duck		Spain		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from spain=Initial_Location
5	is a	present	Spain	the same thing		almost 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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