Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 110
Then all the ducks came crowding round the little dead bird.
Who acts: ducks · What happens: come, crowd
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ducks | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ducks | det |
| 4 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | crowding | crowd | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 came | xcomp |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 bird | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bird | amod |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bird | amod |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crowding | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | all ducks | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crowd | gerund | all ducks not said here | round the little dead bird | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round bird=Destination |
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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