Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 70
The witty little duck said of the Portuguese, that the old lady was getting quite a "doting ducky," All the other ducks laughed at this. "
Who acts: witty little duck, old lady, other ducks · What happens: say, get, dote, laugh · To what, where: this · 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 (witty little duck, old lady, other ducks), 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 | 4 duck | det |
| 2 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 duck | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 duck | amod |
| 4 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Portuguese | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Portuguese | det |
| 8 | Portuguese | Portuguese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 getting | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 getting | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lady | amod |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 getting | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 getting | aux |
| 15 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 a | det:predet |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 getting | xcomp |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 doting | punct |
| 19 | doting | dote | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 a | acl |
| 20 | ducky | ducky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 doting | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 laughed | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 laughed | punct |
| 23 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 ducks | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ducks | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ducks | amod |
| 26 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 laughed | nsubj |
| 27 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 doting | conj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 this | case |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 laughed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 getting | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the witty little duck | of the Portuguese | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get | past · progressive | the old lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | dote in a quote | gerund | ducky property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | laugh | past | all other ducks | this | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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