Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 89
Give that to a chicken," she said, "and don't be always standing in my way."
Who acts: you, madam · What happens: give, say, do, not be · To what, where: that, chicken, way · 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, madam), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Give | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 chicken | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chicken | det |
| 5 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chicken | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 chicken | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 do | cc |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 standing | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 standing | cop |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 standing | advmod |
| 17 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 do | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 standing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | madam | a chicken | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to chicken=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is | infinitive | you not said here | my way | always, stand 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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