Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 29
They nudged each other, and said, "Quack! that was witty!"
Who acts: others, that · What happens: nudge, say, be · To what, where: each, Quack · 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 (others, that), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 nudged | nsubj |
| 2 | nudged | nudge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 nudged | obj |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 each | fixed |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 nudged | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Quack | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Quack | punct |
| 10 | Quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 witty | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 witty | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 witty | cop |
| 14 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 witty | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 witty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nudge | past | others = other | each | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | others = other not said here | Quack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | that | 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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