Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 12
Then the old mouse-king rose and promised that the young lady-mouse who should learn how best to prepare this much-admired and savory soup should be his queen, and a year and a day should be allowed for the purpose."
Who acts: old king rose, young lady mouse, savory soup · What happens: promise, learn, prepare, admire, be, allow · To what, where: best, this, queen · 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 (old king rose, young lady mouse, savory soup), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 promised | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rose | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rose | amod |
| 4 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 mouse | punct |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | compound |
| 7 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promised | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 promised | cc |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 learn | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mouse | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mouse | amod |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mouse | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 lady | punct |
| 15 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 learn | nsubj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 learn | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 learn | aux |
| 18 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promised | ccomp |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 best | advmod |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 learn | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 prepare | mark |
| 22 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 learn | xcomp |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 prepare | obj |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 admired | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 much | punct |
| 26 | admired | admire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 this | acl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 queen | cc |
| 28 | savory | savory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 soup | amod |
| 29 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 queen | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 queen | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 queen | cop |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 queen | nmod:poss |
| 33 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 admired | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 allowed | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 allowed | cc |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 year | det |
| 37 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 allowed | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 day | cc |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 day | det |
| 40 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 year | conj |
| 41 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 allowed | aux |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 allowed | aux:pass |
| 43 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 promised | conj |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 purpose | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 purpose | det |
| 46 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 allowed | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 promised | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the old king rose | then | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | learn | should | the young lady mouse | best | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prepare | to-infinitive | the young lady mouse not said here | this | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient | ||||
| 4 | admire | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is a | should | savory soup | Soup's queen | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | allow | should · passive | the old king rose not said here | year | for the purpose goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: for purpose=Goal |
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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