Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 60

Well, I don't understand the difference," he said; "it appears to me all the same.

Who acts: I, bird, it · What happens: not understand, say, appear · To what, where: difference, me · 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, bird, it), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 understand	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 understand	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 understand	advmod
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 difference	det
8	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understand	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 appears	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 appears	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 appears	nsubj
16	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 appears	obl
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 same	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 same	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 appears	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not understand	present · do-support	I	the difference		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	bird			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	appear	present	it		me	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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