Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 27
"She's quite full of 'Portulak,'" said a little common duck, who was witty.
Who acts: person, little common duck · What happens: be, say · 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 (person, little common 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 full | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 full | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 full | advmod |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Portulak | case |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Portulak | punct |
| 8 | Portulak | Portulak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 full | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 duck | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 duck | amod |
| 15 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 duck | amod |
| 16 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 witty | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 witty | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 witty | cop |
| 20 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 duck | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | person | of Portulak; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a little common duck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | a little common duck | witty 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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