Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 109
He was affectionate and gentle, and that is as rare a quality in animals as in those who call themselves human beings."
Who acts: cock, that · What happens: be, call · To what, where: animals · 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 (cock, that), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 affectionate | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 affectionate | cop |
| 3 | affectionate | affectionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gentle | cc |
| 5 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 affectionate | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rare | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rare | cc |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 rare | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 rare | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 rare | case |
| 11 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 affectionate | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 quality | det |
| 13 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rare | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 animals | case |
| 15 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 quality | nmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 those | case |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 those | case |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 rare | obl |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 call | nsubj |
| 20 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 those | acl:relcl |
| 21 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 call | obj |
| 22 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beings | amod |
| 23 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 call | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 affectionate | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 affectionate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cock | affectionate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | cock not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | that | as those; rare property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | present | animals = animal | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme being=Result |
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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