Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 35
I am certainly no judge of your singing so I keep my beak shut, which is better than talking nonsense, as others do."
Who acts: I, judge, others, your · What happens: be, keep, talk, do, sing · To what, where: judge, beak, nonsense
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 (I, judge, others, your), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 judge | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 judge | cop |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 judge | advmod |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 judge | det |
| 5 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 singing | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 singing | nmod:poss |
| 8 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 keep | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 keep | nsubj |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 judge | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 beak | nmod:poss |
| 13 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obj |
| 14 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 keep | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 better | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 better | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 better | cop |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 judge | amod |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 talking | mark |
| 20 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 do | advcl |
| 21 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 talking | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 do | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 24 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 do | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 better | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 judge | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 judge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | no judge | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | present | I | my beak | of your singing; shut property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | no judge | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | talk | gerund | others not said here | nonsense | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient | ||||
| 5 | do | present | others | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sing | your | nom singing «act transitive»: poss=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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