Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 19

"But I can talk," said the Portuguese duck; "and I'll do something for the little fellow; it's my duty;" and she stepped into the water-trough, and beat her wings upon the water so strongly that the bird was nearly drowned by a shower-bath; but the duck meant it kindly. "

Who acts: Portuguese duck, children, board, duck, shower bath · What happens: talk, say, do, be, step, beat · To what, where: something, duty, water trough, wings, bird, board · 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 (Portuguese duck, children, board, duck), 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	_	5 talk	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 talk	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 talk	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	aux
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 duck	det
10	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 duck	amod
11	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 do	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
16	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 talk	conj
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 do	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 fellow	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fellow	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fellow	amod
22	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 duty	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 duty	nsubj
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 duty	cop
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 duty	nmod:poss
27	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talk	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stepped	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 stepped	nsubj
32	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	37 trough	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 trough	det
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 trough	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 water	punct
37	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stepped	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 beat	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 beat	cc
40	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 stepped	conj
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 wings	nmod:poss
42	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 beat	obj
43	upon	upon	ADP	_	45 water	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 water	det
45	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 beat	obl
46	so	so	ADV	_	47 strongly	advmod
47	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	40 beat	advmod
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 drowned	mark
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 bird	det
50	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 drowned	nsubj:pass
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 drowned	aux:pass
52	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	53 drowned	advmod
53	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 beat	advcl
54	by	by	ADP	_	58 bath	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 bath	det
56	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 bath	compound
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 shower	punct
58	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 drowned	obl
59	;	;	PUNCT	_	63 meant	punct
60	but	but	CCONJ	_	63 meant	cc
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 duck	det
62	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 meant	nsubj
63	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 stepped	conj
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 meant	obj
65	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	63 meant	advmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct
67	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk in a quote	can	the Portuguese duck = duck				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the Portuguese duck				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	do in a quote	future	children = child	something		for the little fellow	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
4	is a in a quote	present	board	my duty			tree rules
5	step	past	duck		the water trough		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into trough=Destination
6	beat	past	duck not said here	duck's wings		upon the water; strongly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
7	drown	past · passive	a shower bath	the bird		nearly property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
8	mean	past	the duck	board		kindly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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