Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 108
"Speak of him with respect," said the Portuguese duck, "for he had manners and education, and he could sing.
Who acts: Portuguese duck, cock · What happens: speak, say, have, sing · To what, where: manners · 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 (Portuguese duck, cock), 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 Speak | punct |
| 2 | Speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Speak | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 respect | case |
| 6 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Speak | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Speak | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Speak | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 duck | det |
| 11 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 duck | amod |
| 12 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 had | case |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 18 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 education | cc |
| 20 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 manners | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sing | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sing | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sing | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 sing | aux |
| 25 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | infinitive | of cock; with respect | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with respect=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Portuguese duck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | cock | manners and education | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express in a quote | could | cock | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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