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title: He annoys me with his loud crowing," said the Portuguese duck; "but,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He annoys me with his loud crowing," said the Portuguese duck; "but, still, he's a handsome bird, there's no denying that, although he's not a drake. Who acts: family, loud crowing, handsome bird. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, with its
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 5

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He annoys me with his loud crowing," said the Portuguese duck; "but, still, he's a handsome bird, there's no denying that, although he's not a drake.

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**Who acts:** family, loud crowing, handsome bird · **What happens:** annoy, say, be, deny, not be, crow · **To what, where:** me, Portuguese duck, handsome bird, that, drake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (family, loud crowing, handsome bird), 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:pg27200:145:5
# text = He annoys me with his loud crowing," said the Portuguese duck; "but, still, he's a handsome bird, there's no denying that, although he's not a drake.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	annoys	annoy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	crowing	crowing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	37	det	_	_
29	denying	deny	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	csubj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	drake	drake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **annoy** | present | family | me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | family's loud crowing | the Portuguese duck |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duck=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present | family | a handsome bird |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | present | a handsome bird |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **deny** | gerund |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 6 | **not** **is a** | present | family | no drake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **crow** |  | family |  |  |  |  |  | nom crowing «communication intransitive»: 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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