Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 22
"I have never thought about my heart," replied the Portuguese duck, "but I know that I love all my fellow-creatures, except the cat, and nobody can expect me to love her, for she ate up two of my ducklings.
Who acts: Portuguese duck, nobody, duck · What happens: not think, reply, know, love, expect, eat up · To what, where: fellow creatures, Portuguese duck, duck, two · 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, nobody, 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 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 thought | advmod |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 duck | det |
| 13 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 duck | amod |
| 14 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 know | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 love | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 love | nsubj |
| 22 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | ccomp |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 creatures | det:predet |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 creatures | nmod:poss |
| 25 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 creatures | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 fellow | punct |
| 27 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 love | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cat | punct |
| 29 | except | except | ADP | _ | 31 cat | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cat | det |
| 31 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 creatures | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 expect | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 expect | cc |
| 34 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 36 expect | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 expect | aux |
| 36 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 love | parataxis |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 expect | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 love | mark |
| 39 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 expect | xcomp |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 love | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 ate | punct |
| 42 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 44 ate | mark |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 ate | nsubj |
| 44 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 love | conj |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 44 ate | compound:prt |
| 46 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 ate | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 ducklings | case |
| 48 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 ducklings | nmod:poss |
| 49 | ducklings | duckling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 two | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | present · perfect | the Portuguese duck = duck | about my heart | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Portuguese duck | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | the Portuguese duck = duck | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | love in a quote | present | the Portuguese duck = duck | my fellow creatures | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | expect in a quote | can | nobody | the Portuguese duck = duck | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | love not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Portuguese duck = duck not said here | duck | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | eat up in a quote | past | duck | two of my ducklings | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient |
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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