Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 43
They have been brought from a great distance, and consequently I treat them with greater respect than I do the others."
Who acts: I · What happens: bring, treat, do · To what, where: fowls, others
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 distance | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 distance | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 distance | amod |
| 8 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 treat | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 treat | cc |
| 11 | consequently | consequently | ADV | _ | 13 treat | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 treat | nsubj |
| 13 | treat | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 treat | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 respect | case |
| 16 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 respect | amod |
| 17 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 treat | obl |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 treat | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 others | det |
| 22 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 do | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · perfect · passive | fowls = fowl | from a great distance | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from distance=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | treat | present | I | fowls = fowl | with greater respect; consequently property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with respect=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | present | I | the others | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality |
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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