Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 28
All the common ducks considered the word "Portulak" a good joke, for it sounded like Portugal.
Who acts: common ducks, word · What happens: consider, sound · To what, where: word
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 (common ducks, word), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ducks | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ducks | det |
| 3 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ducks | amod |
| 4 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 considered | nsubj |
| 5 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 considered | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Portulak | punct |
| 9 | Portulak | Portulak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 word | appos |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Portulak | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 joke | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 joke | amod |
| 13 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 considered | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sounded | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 sounded | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sounded | nsubj |
| 17 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 considered | conj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 Portugal | case |
| 19 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sounded | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past | all common ducks | the word | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent word=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | sound | past | word | like Portugal | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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