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title: "Impertinent creature!" exclaimed the Portuguese duck: "would you co… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Impertinent creature!" exclaimed the Portuguese duck: "would you compare me with the cat--that beast of prey? Who acts: Impertinent creature, you. 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 clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 97

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"Impertinent creature!" exclaimed the Portuguese duck: "would you compare me with the cat--that beast of prey?

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**Who acts:** Impertinent creature, you · **What happens:** exclaim, compare · **To what, where:** Portuguese duck, Impertinent creature · **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 (Impertinent creature, you), 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:pg27200:145:97
# text = "Impertinent creature!" exclaimed the Portuguese duck: "would you compare me with the cat--that beast of prey?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Impertinent	impertinent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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