Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 24
I am myself from a foreign country, as you may see by my feathery dress.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, see · To what, where: foreign country
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 country | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 country | cop |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 am | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 6 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 country | amod |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 country | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 dress | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dress | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feathery | feathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dress | amod |
| 16 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 country | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | a foreign country | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | may | you | by my feathery dress | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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