Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 64
It is a duty we owe to ourselves that we may be nice and fat when we come to be embalmed with sage and onions and apples."
Who acts: business, we, ourselves · What happens: be, owe, come, embalm · To what, where: duty, ourselves
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 (business, we, ourselves), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 duty | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 duty | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 duty | det |
| 4 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 owe | nsubj |
| 6 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 duty | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ourselves | case |
| 8 | ourselves | ourselve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 owe | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 nice | nsubj |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 nice | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 nice | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 nice | cop |
| 13 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ourselves | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fat | cc |
| 15 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 nice | conj |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 come | advmod |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 nice | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 embalmed | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 embalmed | aux:pass |
| 21 | embalmed | embalm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 come | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 sage | case |
| 23 | sage | sage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 embalmed | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 onions | cc |
| 25 | onions | onion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sage | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 apples | cc |
| 27 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 onions | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 duty | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 duty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | business | a duty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | owe | present | we | a duty not said here | to ourselves goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent duty=Theme to ourselve=Goal | |||
| 3 | is | may | ourselves | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | ourselves not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | come | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | embalm | to-infinitive · passive | we not said here | with sage and onions and apples | 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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