Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 113

We shall never have another singing-bird again amongst us; he was almost a Chinese," they whispered, and then they wept with such a noisy, clucking sound, that all the other fowls clucked too, but the ducks went about with redder eyes afterwards. "

Who acts: We, bird, passions, ducks · What happens: not have, be, whisper, weep, cluck, go about · To what, where: singing bird, all · 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 (We, bird, passions, 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 bird	det
6	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 singing	punct
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
10	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	11 us	case
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 Chinese	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 Chinese	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Chinese	cop
15	almost	almost	ADV	_	17 Chinese	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Chinese	det
17	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 whispered	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 whispered	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 whispered	nsubj
21	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Chinese	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wept	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wept	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 wept	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wept	nsubj
26	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 whispered	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	33 sound	case
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 sound	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 sound	det
30	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sound	amod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 clucking	punct
32	clucking	cluck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 sound	amod
33	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wept	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 clucked	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 clucked	mark
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 clucked	nsubj:pass
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 other	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 all	obj
39	fowls	fowl	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 clucked	aux:pass
40	clucked	cluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 wept	conj
41	too	too	ADV	_	40 clucked	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 went	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 went	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ducks	det
45	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 went	nsubj
46	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 whispered	conj
47	about	about	ADV	_	46 went	advmod
48	with	with	ADP	_	50 eyes	case
49	redder	redder	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 eyes	compound
50	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 went	obl
51	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	46 went	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not have	shall	We	another singing bird	again	amongst us	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
2	is	past	bird			almost, chinese property	tree rules
3	whisper speech: assert in a quote	past	passions = passion				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	weep in a quote	past	passions = passion		then	with such noisy clucking sound	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cluck in a quote	gerund					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cluck in a quote	present · passive		all			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
7	go about in a quote	past	the ducks			with redder eyes; about, afterwards property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with eye=Instrument

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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