Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 44

Then the fowls arrived, and the cock was polite enough to-day to keep from being rude. "

Who acts: fowls, cock · What happens: arrive, be, keep

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 (fowls, cock), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 arrived	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fowls	det
3	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 polite	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 polite	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cock	det
8	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 polite	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 polite	cop
10	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 arrived	conj
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	10 polite	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 day	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 to	punct
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 polite	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 keep	mark
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 arrived	advcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 rude	case
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 rude	cop
19	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 keep	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the fowls	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the cock	day	enough, polite property	tree rules
3	keep	to-infinitive	the fowls not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	gerund			rude property	tree rules

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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