Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 20

That is a good deed," she said; "I hope the others will take example by it."

Who acts: That, duck, I, others · What happens: be, say, hope, take · To what, where: good deed, example · 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, duck, I, others), 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	5 deed	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 deed	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 deed	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deed	amod
5	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 deed	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 deed	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 hope	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 hope	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 hope	nsubj
13	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 others	det
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 take	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 take	aux
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hope	ccomp
18	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 take	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a good deed		tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	duck			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hope	present	I			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	take	future	the others	example	by board	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=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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