Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 57

"I wonder what those two Chinese are whispering about," whispered one duck to another; "they are always doing it, and it annoys me.

Who acts: I, those, one duck, beaks, much · What happens: wonder, whisper, do, annoy · To what, where: another, much, one duck · 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 (I, those, one duck, beaks), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wonder	nsubj
3	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 whispering	obj
5	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 whispering	nsubj
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Chinese	nummod
7	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 those	amod
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 whispering	aux
9	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 wonder	ccomp
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 whispering	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whispered	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 whispered	punct
13	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 whispering	parataxis
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 duck	nummod
15	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 whispered	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 another	case
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 whispered	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 doing	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 doing	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 doing	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 doing	aux
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 doing	advmod
23	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 whispered	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 doing	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 annoys	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 annoys	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 annoys	nsubj
28	annoys	annoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wonder	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 annoys	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask in a quote	present	I				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	whisper speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	those			about property	tree rules
3	whisper speech: assert	past	one duck		another		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to another=Recipient
4	do in a quote	present · progressive	beaks = beak	much		always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	annoy in a quote	present	much	one duck = duck			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer

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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