Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 80
I have nerves of my own, but I do not cry 'tweet.'"
Who acts: I · What happens: have, not cry · To what, where: nerves, tweet
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nerves | nerve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 own | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 own | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nerves | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cry | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 cry | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 cry | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cry | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 cry | advmod |
| 12 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | parataxis |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 12 cry | case |
| 14 | tweet | tweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cry | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | nerves of my own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nerve=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not cry speech: express | present · do-support | I | tweet | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tweet=Topic |
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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