Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 91
"Done!" repeated the Portuguese duck, "your mode of expressing yourself is not very polite.
Who acts: mode, Portuguese duck · What happens: do, repeat, express, not be · To what, where: yourself · 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 (mode, Portuguese duck), 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 | _ | 2 Done | punct |
| 2 | Done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 repeated | advcl |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Done | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Done | punct |
| 5 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 duck | det |
| 7 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 duck | amod |
| 8 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 polite | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mode | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 mode | punct |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mode | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mode | mode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 duck | conj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 expressing | mark |
| 14 | expressing | express | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 mode | acl |
| 15 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 expressing | obj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 polite | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 polite | advmod |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 polite | advmod |
| 19 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 repeated | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | repeat | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | express in a quote | gerund | your mode not said here | yourself | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | present | the Portuguese duck and your mode | polite 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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