Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 54
That fat duck yonder speaks evil of every one, and that is against our principles.
Who acts: fat duck, that · What happens: speak, be · To what, where: evil · 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 (fat duck, that), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 duck | det |
| 2 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 duck | amod |
| 3 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speaks | nsubj |
| 4 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 5 speaks | advmod |
| 5 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speaks | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 evil | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 principles | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 principles | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 principles | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 principles | cop |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 principles | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 principles | nmod:poss |
| 16 | principles | principle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 speaks | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 speaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | that fat duck | evil of every one | yonder property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | that | against our principles | 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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