Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 62

"Don't take any notice of what he says," whispered the Portuguese; "he's very well in matters of business, and with him business is placed before everything.

Who acts: you, bird, Portuguese, business · What happens: not take, say, whisper, be, place, matter · To what, where: notice, matters, bird, everything · 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 (you, bird, Portuguese, business), 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	_	4 take	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 notice	det
6	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 notice	nmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whispered	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 whispered	punct
13	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 says	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Portuguese	det
15	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 whispered	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 well	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 well	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 well	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 well	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 well	advmod
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 take	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 matters	case
23	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 well	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 business	case
25	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 matters	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 placed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 placed	cc
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 placed	nsubj:pass
30	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 placed	nsubj:pass
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 placed	aux:pass
32	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 take	conj
33	before	before	ADP	_	34 everything	case
34	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	32 placed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not take in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here	any notice			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	bird				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	whisper speech: assert	past	the Portuguese				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	bird		matters of business	well property	tree rules
5	place in a quote	present · passive		bird	everything		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before everything=Destination
6	matter in a quote		business				nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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