Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 31

The Portuguese had certainly a great flow of language," they said to the little bird. "

Who acts: Portuguese, others, language · What happens: have, say, flow · To what, where: great flow · 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 (Portuguese, others, language), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Portuguese	det
2	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	7 flow	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flow	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flow	amod
7	flow	flow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 language	case
9	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flow	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 bird	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bird	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bird	amod
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Portuguese	a great flow of language		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flow=Patient
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	others = other		to the little bird	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to bird=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	flow		language			nom flow «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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