Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 38

"Oh, no! no! pray let me dry," implored the little bird.

Who acts: you, Portuguese duck · What happens: pray, let, dry, implore · To what, where: Portuguese duck, little bird · 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), 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	_	9 let	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 let	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Oh	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Oh	discourse
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
8	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Oh	conj
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 implored	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 implored	punct
14	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 let	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bird	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bird	amod
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 implored	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	pray in a quote	present	you not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the Portuguese duck = duck		tree rules
3	dry in a quote	infinitive	the Portuguese duck = duck not said here			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	implore	past			the little bird	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient

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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