Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 34

"You have a lovely voice," said one of the eldest ducks; "it must be great satisfaction to you to be able to give so much pleasure as you do.

Who acts: You, one, voice · What happens: have, say, be, give, do · To what, where: lovely voice, great satisfaction, you, much pleasure · 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 (You, one, voice), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 voice	det
5	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 voice	amod
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 said	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 ducks	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ducks	det
13	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 ducks	amod
14	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 satisfaction	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 satisfaction	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 satisfaction	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 satisfaction	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 satisfaction	cop
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 satisfaction	amod
21	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 satisfaction	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	26 able	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 able	cop
26	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 satisfaction	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 give	mark
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 able	xcomp
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pleasure	amod
31	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 do	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 do	nsubj
34	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 give	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	You	a lovely voice			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	one of the eldest ducks				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	must	voice	great satisfaction	you		tree rules
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive	voice not said here			able property	tree rules
5	give in a quote	to-infinitive	voice not said here	much pleasure			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme
6	do in a quote	present	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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