Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 13
"That was not at all a bad proposal," said the other mouse; "but how is the soup made?"
Who acts: That, bad proposal · What happens: not be, say, be, make · To what, where: bad proposal, other mouse, 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 (That, bad proposal), 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 | _ | 9 proposal | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 proposal | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 proposal | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 proposal | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 proposal | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 proposal | det |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 proposal | det |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 proposal | amod |
| 9 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 proposal | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 proposal | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mouse | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mouse | amod |
| 15 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 soup | advmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 soup | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 soup | det |
| 22 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | past | That | all bad proposal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | all bad proposal | the other mouse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the soup | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | participle · passive | the soup | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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