Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 36
"Don't plague him so," interposed the Portuguese duck; "he requires rest and nursing.
Who acts: you, Portuguese duck, bird · What happens: not plague, interpose, require · To what, where: bird, rest · 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, Portuguese duck, bird), 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 | _ | 4 plague | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 plague | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 plague | advmod |
| 4 | plague | plague | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 plague | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 plague | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 interposed | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 interposed | punct |
| 9 | interposed | interpose | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 plague | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 duck | det |
| 11 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 duck | amod |
| 12 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 interposed | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 requires | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 requires | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 requires | nsubj |
| 16 | requires | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 plague | conj |
| 17 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 requires | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 nursing | cc |
| 19 | nursing | nursing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rest | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 plague | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not plague in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | bird | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | interpose speech: other | past | the Portuguese duck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | require in a quote | present | bird | rest and nursing | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rest=Precondition |
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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