Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 26

Ah, yes, there is always some trouble mixed up with the greatest pleasure," said the mouse-king; but he gave orders that all the mice within a circle of many miles should be invited at once.

Who acts: trouble, mouse · What happens: be, mix up, say, give, invite · To what, where: trouble, mouse king, orders · 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 (trouble, mouse), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 is	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	1 Ah	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 trouble	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 is	advmod
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 trouble	det
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
10	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 trouble	acl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 mixed	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 pleasure	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pleasure	det
14	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 pleasure	amod
15	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mixed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 trouble	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 trouble	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
20	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 king	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 mouse	punct
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 gave	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	nsubj
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	conj
27	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 gave	obj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 invited	nsubj:pass
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 mice	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mice	det
31	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 invited	nsubj:pass
32	within	within	ADP	_	34 circle	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 circle	det
34	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mice	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 miles	case
36	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 miles	amod
37	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 circle	nmod
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 invited	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 invited	aux:pass
40	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 orders	acl:relcl
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 once	case
42	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	40 invited	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		some trouble		tree rules
2	mix up	participle		some trouble not said here	with the greatest pleasure	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with pleasure=Co-Patient
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	some trouble	the mouse king		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic
4	give in a quote	past	mouse	orders		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
5	invite in a quote	should · passive		orders		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

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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