Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 37
My little singing-bird do you wish me to prepare another bath for you?"
Who acts: little singing bird · What happens: wish, prepare · To what, where: me, bath
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 (little singing 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bird | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bird | amod |
| 3 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bird | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 singing | punct |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wish | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wish | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 wish | nsubj |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 wish | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 prepare | mark |
| 11 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | xcomp |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 bath | det |
| 13 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prepare | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 prepare | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present · do-support | My little singing bird | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prepare not said to happen | to-infinitive | My little singing bird not said here | another bath | for you | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bath=Product for you=Beneficiary |
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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