Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 69
The Chinese were the first to leave, and the other fowls soon followed them.
Who acts: Chinese, other fowls · What happens: be, leave, follow · To what, where: rest
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 (Chinese, other 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Chinese | det |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 first | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 first | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 first | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 leave | mark |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 first | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 followed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 followed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fowls | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fowls | amod |
| 12 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 followed | nsubj |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 followed | advmod |
| 14 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 first | parataxis |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 followed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Chinese | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | follow | past | the other fowls | rest | soon property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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