Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 5

He annoys me with his loud crowing," said the Portuguese duck; "but, still, he's a handsome bird, there's no denying that, although he's not a drake.

Who acts: family, loud crowing, handsome bird · What happens: annoy, say, be, deny, not be, crow · To what, where: me, Portuguese duck, handsome bird, that, drake · 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 (family, loud crowing, handsome bird), 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	2 annoys	nsubj
2	annoys	annoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 annoys	obj
4	with	with	SCONJ	_	10 said	mark
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 crowing	nmod:poss
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crowing	amod
7	crowing	crowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crowing	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 crowing	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 annoys	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 duck	det
12	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 duck	amod
13	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 annoys	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 annoys	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 's	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bird	punct
18	still	still	ADV	_	24 bird	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 still	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bird	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 bird	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bird	det
23	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bird	amod
24	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 's	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bird	punct
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 's	expl
27	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 annoys	conj
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 drake	det
29	denying	deny	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 drake	csubj
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 denying	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 drake	punct
32	although	although	SCONJ	_	37 drake	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 drake	nsubj
34	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 drake	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 drake	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 drake	det
37	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 's	nsubj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 annoys	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	annoy	present	family	me			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	family's loud crowing	the Portuguese duck			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duck=Topic
3	is a	present	family	a handsome bird		still	tree rules
4	be	present	a handsome bird		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	deny	gerund		that			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
6	not is a	present	family	no drake			tree rules
7	crow		family				nom crowing «communication intransitive»: poss=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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