Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 53

It cannot even be said of the ducks, and we warn you, little bird, not to trust that one yonder, with the short tail feathers, for she is cunning; that curiously marked one, with the crooked stripes on her wings, is a mischief-maker, and never lets any one have the last word, though she is always in the wrong.

Who acts: we, duck, that, one · What happens: not say, warn, not trust, cunn, mark, be · To what, where: yard, little bird, you, one, mischief maker, any · 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 (we, duck, that, one), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 said	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 said	advmod
4	even	even	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	aux:pass
6	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 ducks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ducks	det
9	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 warn	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 warn	cc
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 warn	nsubj
13	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 warn	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bird	punct
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bird	amod
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 warn	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 trust	punct
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 trust	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 trust	mark
21	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 warn	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 one	mark
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 trust	obj
24	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	21 trust	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 feathers	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	30 feathers	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 feathers	det
28	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 feathers	amod
29	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 feathers	compound
30	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 trust	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cunning	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 cunning	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cunning	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 cunning	aux
35	cunning	cunn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 trust	conj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 marked	punct
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 marked	nsubj
38	curiously	curiously	ADV	_	39 marked	advmod
39	marked	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 marked	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 stripes	punct
42	with	with	ADP	_	45 stripes	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 stripes	det
44	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 stripes	amod
45	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 marked	obl
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 wings	case
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 wings	nmod:poss
48	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 stripes	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 maker	punct
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 maker	cop
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 maker	det
52	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 maker	compound
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 mischief	punct
54	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 marked	parataxis
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 lets	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 lets	cc
57	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	58 lets	advmod
58	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
59	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	58 lets	obj
60	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	61 have	nsubj
61	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 any	acl:relcl
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 word	det
63	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 word	amod
64	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 have	obj
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 wrong	punct
66	though	though	SCONJ	_	72 wrong	mark
67	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 wrong	nsubj
68	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	72 wrong	cop
69	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	72 wrong	advmod
70	in	in	ADP	_	72 wrong	case
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 wrong	det
72	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 lets	conj
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	can · passive		yard		of the ducks	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	warn speech: warn	present	we	little bird	you		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	not trust	to-infinitive		one		with the short tail feathers; yonder property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Recipient with feather=Theme
4	cunn	present · progressive	duck				tree rules
5	mark	past	that	one		with the crooked stripes on duck's wings; curiously property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Destination with stripe=Theme
6	is a	present		a mischief maker			tree rules
7	not let	present		any			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme
8	have	present	one	the last word			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
9	is	present	duck			always, wrong 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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