Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 101

Now whatever is the meaning of this?" she said; "could he not bear even such a little peck as I gave him?

Who acts: meaning, creature, bird, I · What happens: be, say, not bear, give, mean · To what, where: whatever, little peck, bird, this · 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 (meaning, creature, bird, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 whatever	advmod
2	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 said	ccomp
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whatever	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meaning	det
5	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whatever	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 meaning	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whatever	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 whatever	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 bear	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 bear	punct
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 bear	aux
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bear	nsubj
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 bear	advmod
17	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	even	even	ADV	_	22 peck	advmod
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 peck	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 peck	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 peck	amod
22	peck	peck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bear	obj
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 gave	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 gave	nsubj
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bear	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	iobj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	the meaning of this	whatever		now	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	creature				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not bear	could	bird	such little peck			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peck=Patient
4	give	past	I		bird		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	mean			this			nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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