Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 116
"Let us think of getting something to satisfy our hunger," said the drake, "that's the most important business.
Who acts: us, drake, that, our · What happens: let, think, get, satisfy, say, be · To what, where: us, something, hunger, important business · 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 (us, drake, that, our), 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 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 getting | mark |
| 6 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 think | advcl |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 getting | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 satisfy | mark |
| 9 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 something | acl |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 satisfy | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 drake | det |
| 16 | drake | drake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 business | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 business | punct |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 business | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 business | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 business | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 important | advmod |
| 23 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 business | amod |
| 24 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drake | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | gerund | us not said here | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | satisfy in a quote | to-infinitive | us not said here | our hunger | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the drake and the important business | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | that | the important business | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hunger in a quote | our | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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