Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 82
The Portuguese did not listen to him, but began eating as fast as she could, and made a good meal.
Who acts: Portuguese · What happens: not listen, begin, eat, make · To what, where: bird, good meal
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 | 5 listen | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 listen | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 listen | advmod |
| 5 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 listen | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 listen | parataxis |
| 11 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 began | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 fast | advmod |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 eating | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 could | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 could | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fast | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 began | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 meal | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 meal | amod |
| 22 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not listen | past · do-support | the Portuguese | bird | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | fast property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | past | a good meal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meal=Product |
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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