Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 78
"Tweet," he cried; "you trod very hard upon me, madam."
Who acts: Tweet, you · What happens: cry, tread · To what, where: madam · 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 (Tweet, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tweet | punct |
| 2 | Tweet | Tweet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tweet | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 trod | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 trod | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 trod | nsubj |
| 10 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | conj |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 hard | advmod |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trod | xcomp |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 hard | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 madam | punct |
| 16 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trod | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Tweet | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tread in a quote | past | you | madam | hard property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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