Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 56

The Portuguese is the only one who has had any education, and with whom we can associate, but she is passionate, and talks too much about 'Portugal.'"

Who acts: Portuguese, only one, we · What happens: be, have, associate, talk · To what, where: only one, education, much

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 (Portuguese, only one, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Portuguese	det
2	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 one	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 had	aux
9	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 one	acl:relcl
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 education	det
11	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 associate	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 associate	cc
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 whom	case
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 associate	obl
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 associate	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 associate	aux
18	associate	associate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 one	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 passionate	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 passionate	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 passionate	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 passionate	cop
23	passionate	passionate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 associate	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 talks	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 talks	cc
26	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 passionate	conj
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 talks	obj
29	about	about	ADP	_	31 Portugal	case
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 Portugal	punct
31	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 much	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 associate	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 associate	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Portuguese	the only one		tree rules
2	have	present · perfect	the only one	any education		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent education=Patient
3	associate	can	we		with the only one	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with whom=Co-Patient
4	is	present	Portuguese		passionate property	tree rules
5	talk	present	Portuguese not said here	much	about Portugal	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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