Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 16
She pitied the little singing-bird, and so did all the other ducks who were not Portuguese.
Who acts: creature, other ducks · What happens: pity, do, not be · To what, where: little singing bird, other ducks
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 (creature, other 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pitied | nsubj |
| 2 | pitied | pity | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bird | amod |
| 5 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bird | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 singing | punct |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pitied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 did | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 did | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pitied | conj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 ducks | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ducks | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ducks | amod |
| 15 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 did | obj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 Portuguese | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 Portuguese | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 Portuguese | advmod |
| 19 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ducks | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pitied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pity | past | creature | the little singing bird | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | past | creature not said here | all other ducks | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | all other ducks | portuguese property | tree rules |
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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