Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 2
I sat number twenty-one below the mouse-king, which was not a bad place.
Who acts: I, mouse king · What happens: sit, not be · To what, where: number, bad place
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 (I, mouse king), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obj |
| 4 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 number | flat |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 number | appos |
| 7 | below | below | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 9 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 king | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 mouse | punct |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 place | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 place | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 place | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 place | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 17 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 king | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | I | number | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location number=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | the mouse king and a bad place | a bad place | tree rules |
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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