Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 21

"Tweet, tweet!" said the little bird, for one of his wings being broken, he found it difficult to shake himself; but he quite understood that the bath was meant kindly, and he said, "You are very kind-hearted, madam;" but he did not wish for a second bath.

Who acts: Tweet, bird, wing, You · What happens: say, break, find, shake, understand, mean · To what, where: little bird, wings, wing, bird, bath · 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 (Tweet, bird, wing, You), 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	_	2 Tweet	punct
2	Tweet	Tweet	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tweet	punct
4	tweet	tweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tweet	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Tweet	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tweet	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 one	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 said	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 wings	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wings	nmod:poss
16	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 broken	aux:pass
18	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 wings	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	obj
23	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 found	xcomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 shake	mark
25	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 difficult	xcomp
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 shake	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 understood	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 understood	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 understood	nsubj
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 understood	advmod
31	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 meant	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bath	det
34	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 meant	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 meant	aux:pass
36	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 understood	advcl
37	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	36 meant	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 said	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 said	cc
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 said	nsubj
41	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 hearted	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 hearted	punct
44	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 hearted	nsubj
45	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 hearted	cop
46	very	very	ADV	_	49 hearted	advmod
47	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 hearted	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 kind	punct
49	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 said	ccomp
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 madam	punct
51	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 hearted	conj
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 wish	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	58 wish	punct
54	but	but	CCONJ	_	58 wish	cc
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 wish	nsubj
56	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 wish	aux
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	58 wish	advmod
58	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 said	ccomp
59	for	for	ADP	_	62 bath	case
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 bath	det
61	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	62 bath	amod
62	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 wish	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Tweet and tweet	the little bird		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
2	break	gerund · passive		bird's wings not said here		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»
3	find	past	bird	wing	difficult property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	shake	to-infinitive	wing not said here	bird		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
5	understand	past	bird			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	mean	past · passive		the bath	kindly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
7	say speech: assert	past	bird			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	is in a quote	present	You		hearted property	tree rules
9	not wish	past · do-support	bird		for a second bath	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for bath=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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