Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 111
Ducks have strong passions, whether they feel envy or pity.
Who acts: Ducks, passions · What happens: have, feel · To what, where: strong passions, envy
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, passions), 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 | Ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 passions | amod |
| 4 | passions | passion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feel | punct |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 feel | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 feel | nsubj |
| 8 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 9 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feel | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 pity | cc |
| 11 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 envy | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Ducks | strong passions | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passion=Patient | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | passions = passion | envy or pity | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent envy=Theme |
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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