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title: I am certainly no judge of your singing so I keep my beak shut, whic… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I am certainly no judge of your singing so I keep my beak shut, which is better than talking nonsense, as others do." Who acts: I, judge, others, your. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 35

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I am certainly no judge of your singing so I keep my beak shut, which is better than talking nonsense, as others do."

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**Who acts:** I, judge, others, your · **What happens:** be, keep, talk, do, sing · **To what, where:** judge, beak, nonsense

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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, judge, others, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:145:35
# text = I am certainly no judge of your singing so I keep my beak shut, which is better than talking nonsense, as others do."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
19	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
21	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | no judge |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present | I | my beak |  |  |  | of your singing; shut *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | no judge |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **talk** | gerund | others *not said here* | nonsense |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient |
| 5 | **do** | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sing** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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