Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 97
"Impertinent creature!" exclaimed the Portuguese duck: "would you compare me with the cat--that beast of prey?
Who acts: Impertinent creature, you · What happens: exclaim, compare · To what, where: Portuguese duck, Impertinent creature · 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 (Impertinent creature, you), 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 | _ | 3 creature | punct |
| 2 | Impertinent | impertinent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 creature | amod |
| 3 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 creature | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 creature | punct |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 duck | det |
| 8 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 duck | amod |
| 9 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 compare | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 compare | punct |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 compare | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 compare | nsubj |
| 14 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 compare | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 cat | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cat | det |
| 18 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 compare | obl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 beast | punct |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 beast | det |
| 21 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cat | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 prey | case |
| 23 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beast | nmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Impertinent creature | the Portuguese duck | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | compare in a quote | would | you | Impertinent creature = creature | with the cat | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient with cat=Co-Patient |
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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