Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 16
They wished very much to be queen, but they did not want to take the trouble of going out into the world to learn how to make soup, which was absolutely necessary to be done first.
Who acts: people, trouble, soup · What happens: wish, be, not want, take, go out, learn · To what, where: much, queen, trouble, world, 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 (people, trouble, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wished | nsubj |
| 2 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wished | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 queen | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 queen | cop |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 much | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 want | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 want | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 want | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 want | advmod |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wished | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 want | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trouble | det |
| 17 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 going | mark |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 trouble | acl |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 going | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 learn | mark |
| 25 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 take | advcl |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 make | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 make | mark |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 learn | ccomp |
| 29 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 necessary | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 necessary | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 necessary | cop |
| 33 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 34 necessary | advmod |
| 34 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 soup | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 done | mark |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 done | aux:pass |
| 37 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 necessary | advcl |
| 38 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 done | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | people | much | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | queen | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not want | past · do-support | people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | the trouble | the world | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme into world=Destination | |||
| 5 | go out | gerund | the trouble not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | learn | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | soup | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soup=Product | |||||
| 8 | is | past | soup | absolutely, necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | do | to-infinitive · passive | soup not said here | first property | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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