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title: "Done!" repeated the Portuguese duck, "your mode of expressing yours… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Done!" repeated the Portuguese duck, "your mode of expressing yourself is not very polite. Who acts: mode, Portuguese duck. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 91

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"Done!" repeated the Portuguese duck, "your mode of expressing yourself is not very polite.

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**Who acts:** mode, Portuguese duck · **What happens:** do, repeat, express, not be · **To what, where:** yourself · **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 (mode, Portuguese duck), 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:pg27200:145:91
# text = "Done!" repeated the Portuguese duck, "your mode of expressing yourself is not very polite.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mode	mode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	expressing	express	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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