Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 52
Except ourselves and the cock there is not one in the yard who can be called talented or polite.
Who acts: you · What happens: except, not be, call · To what, where: ourselves, one, yard · 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 (you), 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 | Except | except | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Except | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 one | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cock | det |
| 5 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 one | advmod |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Except | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 yard | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 yard | det |
| 12 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 called | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 called | aux:pass |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 yard | acl:relcl |
| 17 | talented | talented | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 polite | cc |
| 19 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 talented | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Except | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | except | imperative | you not said here | ourselves | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | you not said here | one | in the yard | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call | can · passive | the yard | talented property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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