Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 23
Every one took a sausage skewer as a traveller's staff, and to remind them of the object of their journey.
Who acts: one, thoughts · What happens: take, remind, journey · To what, where: sausage skewer, skewers
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 (one, 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 skewer | det |
| 5 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skewer | compound |
| 6 | skewer | skewer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 staff | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 traveller | det |
| 9 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 staff | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 traveller | case |
| 11 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 remind | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 remind | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 remind | mark |
| 15 | remind | remind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 remind | iobj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 object | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 object | det |
| 19 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remind | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 journey | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 journey | nmod:poss |
| 22 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 object | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | every one | a sausage skewer | as a traveller's staff | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent skewer=Theme as staff=Attribute | |||
| 2 | remind speech: other | to-infinitive | every one not said here | skewers = skewer | of the object of thoughts's journey | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient of object=Topic | |||
| 3 | journey | thoughts = thought | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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