Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 71
Doting ducky," they whispered. "
Who acts: fowls · What happens: dote, whisper
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 | Doting | dote | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 whispered | advcl |
| 2 | ducky | ducky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Doting | xcomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Doting | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 whispered | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 whispered | nsubj |
| 6 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 whispered | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dote | gerund | fowls = fowl not said here | ducky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert in a quote | past | fowls = fowl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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