Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 39
"The water-cure is the only remedy for me, when I am not well," said the Portuguese. "
Who acts: water cure, Portuguese · What happens: be, not be, say · To what, where: only remedy · 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 (water cure, Portuguese), 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 remedy | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cure | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cure | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 water | punct |
| 5 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remedy | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 remedy | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 remedy | det |
| 8 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 remedy | amod |
| 9 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 remedy | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 remedy | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 well | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 well | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 well | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 well | advmod |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 said | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 well | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 well | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Portuguese | det |
| 22 | Portuguese | Portuguese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the water cure | the only remedy | for the Portuguese = portuguese | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | the Portuguese = portuguese | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Portuguese | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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