Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 99
It consisted of a soup of salted water, seasoned with pepper and rancid oil.
Who acts: meal · What happens: consist, salt, season · To what, where: salted water
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meal), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 consisted | nsubj |
| 2 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 soup | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 soup | det |
| 5 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 consisted | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | salted | salt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 water | amod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soup | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seasoned | punct |
| 10 | seasoned | season | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 water | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 pepper | case |
| 12 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seasoned | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 oil | cc |
| 14 | rancid | rancid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 oil | amod |
| 15 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pepper | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 consisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | past | meal | of a soup of salted water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | salt | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | season | participle | salted water not said here | with pepper and rancid oil | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pepper=Theme |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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