Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 85
"Now I want rest after my dinner," said the Portuguese; "you must conform to the rules of the house while you are here.
Who acts: Portuguese, you, house · What happens: want, say, conform, be, rule · To what, where: rest, rules · 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 (Portuguese, you, house), 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 | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 want | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | obj |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 dinner | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Portuguese | det |
| 13 | Portuguese | Portuguese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 conform | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 conform | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 conform | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 conform | aux |
| 18 | conform | conform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 rules | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rules | det |
| 21 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 conform | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rules | nmod |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 here | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 here | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 here | cop |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 conform | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | the Portuguese = portuguese | rest | after my dinner; now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Portuguese | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | conform in a quote | must | you | to the rules of the house goal | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent to rule=Goal | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | rule in a quote | the house | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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