Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 79

"Well, then, why do you lie in my way?" she retorted, "you must not be so touchy.

Who acts: you, Portuguese · What happens: lie, retort, not be · To what, where: way · 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 (you, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 lie	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 lie	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 lie	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 lie	advmod
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lie	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 lie	nsubj
9	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 retorted	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lie	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 lie	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 lie	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 retorted	nsubj
16	retorted	retort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 touchy	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 touchy	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 touchy	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 touchy	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 touchy	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 touchy	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 touchy	advmod
24	touchy	touchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 retorted	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 retorted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie in a quote	present · do-support	you	my way	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location
2	retort speech: other	past	Portuguese				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is in a quote	must	you			touchy 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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