Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 2
At all events, she was called the "Portuguese," and she laid eggs, was killed, and cooked, and there was an end of her.
Who acts: duck, end · What happens: call, lay, kill, cook, be · To what, where: duck, eggs · 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 (duck, end), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 events | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 events | det |
| 3 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 called | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 events | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 called | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | aux:pass |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Portuguese | det |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Portuguese | punct |
| 10 | Portuguese | portuguese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Portuguese | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Portuguese | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 laid | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 laid | nsubj |
| 15 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | conj |
| 16 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 laid | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 killed | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 killed | aux:pass |
| 19 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 laid | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cooked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cooked | cc |
| 22 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 killed | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 was | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 was | cc |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | parataxis |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 end | det |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 was | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 end | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past · passive | duck | at all events | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: subject=Theme at event=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | duck | eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | ||||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | duck not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 4 | cook | participle | duck not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | be | past | a end of duck | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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