Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 81
"Don't be angry," said the little bird; "the 'tweet' slipped out of my beak unawares."
Who acts: you, little bird, tweet · What happens: not be, say, slip out · To what, where: beak unawares · 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, little bird, tweet), 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 | _ | 5 angry | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 angry | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 angry | cop |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bird | amod |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 slipped | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tweet | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tweet | det |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 tweet | punct |
| 16 | tweet | tweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slipped | nsubj |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 tweet | punct |
| 18 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 unawares | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 unawares | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 unawares | nmod:poss |
| 22 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 unawares | compound |
| 23 | unawares | unaware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 slipped | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the little bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | slip out in a quote | past | the tweet | my beak unawares | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent unaware=Patient |
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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