Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 25
My drake is a native of these parts; he's not of my race; but I am not proud on that account.
Who acts: drake, I · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: native, account
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 (drake, I), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 drake | nmod:poss |
| 2 | drake | drake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 native | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 native | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 native | det |
| 5 | native | native | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 parts | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 parts | det |
| 8 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 native | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 race | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 race | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 race | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 race | advmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 race | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 race | nmod:poss |
| 15 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 native | appos |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 proud | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 proud | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 proud | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 proud | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 proud | advmod |
| 21 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 native | parataxis |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 account | case |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 account | det |
| 24 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 proud | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 native | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | My drake | a native | of this parts | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is | present | drake | of my race | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | I | that account | proud property | tree rules |
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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