Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 114

We have hearts of our own," they said, "nobody can deny that."

Who acts: We, passions, nobody · What happens: have, say, deny · To what, where: hearts, that · 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, passions, nobody), 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	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
3	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 own	case
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hearts	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 deny	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 deny	punct
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 deny	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 deny	aux
15	deny	deny	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 deny	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 deny	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 deny	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	We	hearts of our own	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	passions = passion		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	deny	can	nobody	that	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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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