Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 19
Most probably some such thoughts as these discouraged the majority from going out into the world to collect the required information.
Who acts: such thoughts · What happens: discourage, go out, collect, require · To what, where: majority, world, required information
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 (such thoughts), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 probably | nsubj |
| 2 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 8 discouraged | advmod |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 thoughts | det |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thoughts | amod |
| 5 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 discouraged | nsubj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 these | case |
| 7 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 thoughts | nmod |
| 8 | discouraged | discourage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 majority | det |
| 10 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 discouraged | obj |
| 11 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 12 going | mark |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 discouraged | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 going | advmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 collect | mark |
| 18 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 going | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 information | det |
| 20 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 information | amod |
| 21 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 collect | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 discouraged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discourage | past | some such thoughts as these | the majority | probably property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus majority=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | go out | gerund | some such thoughts as these not said here | the world | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | collect | to-infinitive | some such thoughts as these not said here | the required information | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=Theme | ||||
| 4 | require | participle | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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