Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 32
For our part we don't care to fill our beaks with such long words, but we sympathize with you quite as much.
Who acts: we · What happens: not care, fill, sympathize · To what, where: beaks
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 (we), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 part | case |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 part | nmod:poss |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 care | obl |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 care | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 care | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 care | advmod |
| 7 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fill | mark |
| 9 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 care | xcomp |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 beaks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fill | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 words | case |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | amod |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | amod |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fill | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sympathize | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 sympathize | cc |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 sympathize | nsubj |
| 19 | sympathize | sympathize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 care | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 sympathize | obl |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 sympathize | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | present · do-support | we | for our part | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fill | to-infinitive | we not said here | our beaks | with such long words | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent beak=Patient with word=Instrument | |||
| 3 | sympathize | present | we | with you | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with you=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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