Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 115

"Hearts!" repeated the Portuguese, "indeed you have, almost as tender as the ducks in Portugal."

Who acts: Hearts, you · What happens: repeat, have · To what, where: Portuguese, tender

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 (Hearts, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hearts	punct
2	Hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 repeated	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hearts	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hearts	punct
5	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Portuguese	det
7	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 repeated	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	12 have	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 repeated	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tender	punct
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	16 tender	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 tender	case
16	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 ducks	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ducks	det
19	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tender	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 Portugal	case
21	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 ducks	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 repeated	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	Hearts	the Portuguese					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portuguese=Eventuality
2	have in a quote	present	you	tender				as the ducks in Portugal; indeed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tender=Patient

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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