Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 1

"We had such an excellent dinner yesterday," said an old mouse of the female sex to another who had not been present at the feast. "

Who acts: We, old mouse · What happens: have, say, not be · To what, where: excellent dinner, feast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, old mouse), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 dinner	det:predet
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dinner	det
6	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dinner	amod
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
8	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mouse	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mouse	amod
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 sex	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sex	det
17	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sex	amod
18	sex	sex	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mouse	nmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 another	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 present	obl
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 present	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 present	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 present	advmod
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 present	cop
25	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 feast	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 feast	det
28	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 present	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 present	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 present	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	We	such excellent dinner		yesterday		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	a old mouse of the female sex					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is	past · perfect			the feast		to another; present property	tree rules

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: «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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