Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 73
And then they repeated the former joke about "Portulak," and declared it was most amusing.
Who acts: fowls, joke · What happens: repeat, declare, be · To what, where: former joke · 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, joke), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 repeated | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 repeated | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 repeated | nsubj |
| 4 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 joke | det |
| 6 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 joke | amod |
| 7 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repeated | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 Portulak | case |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Portulak | punct |
| 10 | Portulak | Portulak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 joke | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Portulak | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Portulak | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 declared | cc |
| 14 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 repeated | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 amusing | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 amusing | cop |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 amusing | advmod |
| 18 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 declared | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | fowls = fowl | the former joke | then | about Portulak | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | fowls = fowl not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | joke | amusing property | 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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