Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 15
All the young lady mice were asking the same question.
Who acts: young lady mice · What happens: ask · To what, where: same question
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 (young lady mice), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 mice | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mice | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mice | amod |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mice | compound |
| 5 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 asking | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asking | aux |
| 7 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 question | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 question | amod |
| 10 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asking | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · progressive | all young lady mice | the same question | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/178/15/