Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 3
But the ducklings which crept forth from the eggs were also called "Portuguese," and about that there may be some question.
Who acts: ducklings · What happens: creep, call, be · To what, where: eggs, ducklings · 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 (ducklings), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 called | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ducklings | det |
| 3 | ducklings | duckling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 crept | nsubj |
| 5 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ducklings | acl:relcl |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 crept | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 eggs | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eggs | det |
| 9 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 crept | obl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | aux:pass |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 called | advmod |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Portuguese | punct |
| 14 | Portuguese | Portuguese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Portuguese | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Portuguese | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 question | cc |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 question | case |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 be | mark |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 be | expl |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 be | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 question | cop |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 question | det |
| 24 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Portuguese | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | the ducklings | the eggs | forth property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from egg=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | call | past · passive | the ducklings | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | about some question | 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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