Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 12

That's just like the cat, she's a villain," said the Portuguese duck. "

Who acts: That, crowing, cat · What happens: be, say · To what, where: villain, Portuguese duck · 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 (That, crowing, cat), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 cat	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cat	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 cat	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 cat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 villain	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 villain	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 villain	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 villain	det
11	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cat	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 villain	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 villain	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 duck	det
16	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 duck	amod
17	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	That		like the cat	tree rules
2	is a	present	crowing	a villain		tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the cat	the Portuguese duck		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duck=Topic

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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