Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 27

They were to assemble in the kitchen, and the three travelled mice were to stand in a row before them, while a sausage skewer, covered with crape, was to be stuck up instead of the missing mouse.

Who acts: orders, three, mice · What happens: assemble, travel, stand, cover, stick up · To what, where: kitchen, row, sausage skewer

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 (orders, three, mice), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 assemble	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 assemble	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 assemble	mark
4	assemble	assemble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 kitchen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kitchen	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assemble	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 travelled	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 travelled	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 three	det
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 travelled	nsubj
12	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 assemble	parataxis
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stand	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stand	aux
15	to	to	PART	_	16 stand	mark
16	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 travelled	ccomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 row	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 row	det
19	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stand	obl
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stand	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 stuck	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	35 stuck	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 skewer	det
25	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 skewer	compound
26	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stuck	nsubj:pass
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 covered	punct
28	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 skewer	acl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 crape	case
30	crape	crape	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 covered	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 skewer	punct
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 stuck	aux:pass
33	to	to	PART	_	35 stuck	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 stuck	aux:pass
35	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 stand	parataxis
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 stuck	compound:prt
37	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	41 mouse	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	37 instead	fixed
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 mouse	det
40	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 mouse	amod
41	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stuck	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 assemble	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assemble	past	orders = order		the kitchen			vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	travel	past	the three					tree rules
3	stand	past	mice		a row	before orders = order		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location
4	cover	participle		a sausage skewer not said here			with crape	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with crape=Theme
5	stick up	past · passive		a sausage skewer			instead the missing mouse	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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