Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 20
Only four mice gave notice that they were ready to set out on the journey.
Who acts: four mice, thoughts · What happens: give, be, set out · To what, where: notice, journey
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 (four mice, 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 four | advmod |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 mice | nummod |
| 3 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 ready | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ready | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ready | cop |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gave | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 set | mark |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ready | xcomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 journey | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 journey | det |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | four mice | notice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | thoughts = thought | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set out | to-infinitive | thoughts = thought not said here | the journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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