Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 8
Nothing was left but the sausage skewers, and this formed a subject of conversation, till at last it turned to the proverb, 'Soup from sausage skins;' or, as the people in the neighboring country call it, 'Soup from a sausage skewer.'
Who acts: this, subject, people · What happens: leave, form, turn, neighbor, call · To what, where: Nothing, subject, Soup, last, sausage skewer · 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 (this, subject, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 left | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux:pass |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 skewers | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 skewers | det |
| 6 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 skewers | compound |
| 7 | skewers | skewer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 formed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 formed | cc |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 formed | nsubj |
| 11 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 subject | det |
| 13 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 formed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 conversation | case |
| 15 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 subject | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 turned | punct |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 turned | mark |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 turned | obl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 turned | nsubj |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 formed | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 proverb | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 proverb | det |
| 24 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Soup | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ' | punct |
| 26 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 24 proverb | punct |
| 27 | Soup | Soup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | obl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 skins | case |
| 29 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 skins | compound |
| 30 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 turned | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 call | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 or | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 42 call | cc |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 or | punct |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 call | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 people | det |
| 37 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 call | nsubj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 country | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 country | det |
| 40 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 country | amod |
| 41 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 people | nmod |
| 42 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | parataxis |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 call | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 ' | punct |
| 45 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 46 Soup | punct |
| 46 | Soup | Soup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 call | obj |
| 47 | from | from | ADP | _ | 50 skewer | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 skewer | det |
| 49 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 skewer | compound |
| 50 | skewer | skewer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 call | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
| 52 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Nothing | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | form | past | this | a subject of conversation | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | subject | Soup to the proverb | last | from sausage skins | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme at last=Source from skin=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | call | present | the people in the neighboring country | subject | a sausage skewer | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme soup=Result |
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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