Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 47

His feathers had been much ruffled by his bath, so that he seemed to them quite like a tiny Chinese fowl. "

Who acts: bath, Chinese · What happens: ruffle, seem · To what, where: feathers

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 (bath, Chinese), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feathers	nmod:poss
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ruffled	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ruffled	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 ruffled	aux:pass
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 ruffled	advmod
6	ruffled	ruffle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 bath	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bath	nmod:poss
9	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ruffled	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 seemed	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seemed	nsubj
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ruffled	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seemed	obl
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 fowl	advmod
18	like	like	ADP	_	22 fowl	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fowl	det
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fowl	amod
21	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fowl	amod
22	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seemed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 fowl	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 fowl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ruffle	past · perfect · passive	Chinese's bath	Chinese's feathers					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	seem	past	Chinese		feathers = feather			like a tiny Chinese fowl	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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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