Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 88
When madam awoke afterwards, there he stood before her with a little corn he had found, and laid it at her feet; but as she had not slept well, she was naturally in a bad temper. "
Who acts: madam, bird · What happens: awake, stand, find, lay, not sleep, be · To what, where: little corn, corn, feet, bad temper
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 (madam, bird), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | advcl |
| 4 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 stood | expl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stood | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 corn | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 corn | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 corn | amod |
| 14 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 found | aux |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 corn | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 laid | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 laid | cc |
| 20 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 laid | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 feet | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 feet | nmod:poss |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 laid | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 slept | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 slept | cc |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 slept | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 slept | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 slept | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 slept | advmod |
| 31 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 stood | conj |
| 32 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 slept | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 temper | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 temper | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 temper | cop |
| 36 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 40 temper | advmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 temper | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 temper | det |
| 39 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 temper | amod |
| 40 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | madam | afterwards property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | bird | there | before madam | with a little corn | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | ||
| 3 | find | past · perfect | bird | a little corn not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Topic | ||||
| 4 | lay | past | bird not said here | corn | madam's feet | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 5 | not sleep | past · perfect | madam | well property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is | past | madam | a bad temper | naturally 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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