Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 48

He's charming," they said to each other, and began a conversation with him in whispers, using the most aristocratic Chinese dialect: "We are of the same race as yourself," they said. "

Who acts: Chinese, feathers, We · What happens: be, say, begin, use · To what, where: charming, each, conversation, whispers, aristocratic Chinese dialect · 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 (Chinese, feathers, We), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 charming	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 charming	cop
3	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 charming	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 charming	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 each	case
9	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	7 said	obl
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 each	fixed
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 conversation	det
15	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 began	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 whispers	case
19	whispers	whisper	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 began	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 using	punct
21	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 began	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 dialect	det
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 aristocratic	advmod
24	aristocratic	aristocratic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 dialect	amod
25	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 dialect	amod
26	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 using	obj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 race	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 race	punct
29	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 race	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 race	cop
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 race	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 race	det
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 race	amod
34	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 said	ccomp
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 yourself	case
36	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 race	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 yourself	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 race	punct
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 said	nsubj
40	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 said	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Chinese	charming				tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	feathers = feather		each			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
3	begin in a quote	past	feathers = feather not said here	a conversation		whispers	with Chinese	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent conversation=Eventuality with he=Subeventuality
4	use in a quote	gerund	feathers = feather not said here	the aristocratic Chinese dialect				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dialect=Patient
5	is	present	We				of the same race; as yourself	tree rules
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past	feathers = feather					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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