Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 10

A capital toast was drunk to the inventor of the soup, and some one said he ought to be made a relieving officer to the poor.

Who acts: one · What happens: drink, say, make, relieve · To what, where: capital toast, Soup · 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 (one), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 toast	det
2	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 toast	amod
3	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drunk	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drunk	aux:pass
5	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 inventor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 inventor	det
8	inventor	inventor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drunk	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 soup	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soup	det
11	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 inventor	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drunk	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	nsubj
18	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 made	aux
19	to	to	PART	_	21 made	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 made	aux:pass
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 said	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 officer	det
23	relieving	relieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 officer	amod
24	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 poor	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 poor	det
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 made	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drunk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drink	past · passive		a capital toast	to the inventor of the soup	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	some one			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	ought · passive		Soup	to the poor	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary officer=Product
4	relieve	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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