Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 99
I've taken your part, and now I'll teach you better manners."
Who acts: I · What happens: take, teach · To what, where: part, better manners, you
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | aux |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 part | nmod:poss |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 teach | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 teach | cc |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 teach | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 teach | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 teach | aux |
| 11 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 taken | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 teach | iobj |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 manners | amod |
| 14 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 teach | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taken | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · perfect | I | your part | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | future | I | better manners | you | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient manners=Topic |
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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