Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 68

But the fowls of the neighborhood were all awake, and, to tell the truth, they had paid a visit to the duckyard, simply and solely to find food for themselves.

Who acts: fowls · What happens: be, tell, pay, find · To what, where: truth, fowls, food · 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 (fowls), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 awake	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fowls	det
3	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 awake	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 neighborhood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 neighborhood	det
6	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fowls	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 awake	cop
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 awake	advmod
9	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tell	mark
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 awake	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 truth	det
16	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 paid	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 paid	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 paid	aux
20	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 tell	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 visit	det
22	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 paid	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 duckyard	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 duckyard	det
25	duckyard	duckyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 visit	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 simply	punct
27	simply	simply	ADV	_	20 paid	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 solely	cc
29	solely	solely	ADV	_	27 simply	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 find	mark
31	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 paid	advcl
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 find	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 themselves	case
34	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 find	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 awake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fowls of the neighborhood		all, awake property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the fowls of the neighborhood not said here	the truth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient
3	pay	past · perfect · passive		fowls = fowl	simply property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient visit=Asset
4	find	to-infinitive		food	for fowls = fowl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for themselves=Beneficiary

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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