Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 77
The Portuguese awoke too, and rushed over to the other side: in so doing she trod upon the little singing-bird.
Who acts: Portuguese · What happens: awake, rush over, do, tread
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 (Portuguese), 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 Portuguese | det |
| 2 | Portuguese | Portuguese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rushed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rushed | cc |
| 7 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | parataxis |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 rushed | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 side | amod |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rushed | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 doing | punct |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 doing | mark |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 doing | advmod |
| 16 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 rushed | advcl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 trod | nsubj |
| 18 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 doing | ccomp |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 bird | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bird | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bird | amod |
| 22 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bird | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 singing | punct |
| 24 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trod | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the Portuguese | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rush over | past | to the other side result; over property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result | |||||
| 3 | do | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | tread | past | Portuguese | upon the little singing bird | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bird=Trajectory |
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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