Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 9

Every one had heard the proverb, but no one had ever tasted the soup, much less prepared it.

Who acts: one · What happens: hear, taste, prepare · To what, where: proverb, one

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), 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	4 heard	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 proverb	det
6	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tasted	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 tasted	cc
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tasted	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tasted	aux
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 tasted	advmod
13	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heard	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 soup	det
15	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tasted	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 prepared	punct
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 less	advmod
18	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 prepared	advmod
19	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 prepared	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	every one	the proverb			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer proverb=Stimulus
2	taste	past · perfect · passive		no one	ever		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme soup=Attribute
3	prepare	past		proverb		less property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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