Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 1

"When I first went out into the world," said the little mouse, "I fancied, as so many of my age do, that I already knew everything, but it was not so.

Who acts: little mouse, many, mouse · What happens: go out, say, fancy, do, know, not be · To what, where: world, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little mouse, many, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 went	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mouse	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mouse	amod
15	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fancied	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 fancied	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 fancied	nsubj
19	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 do	mark
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 many	advmod
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 do	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 age	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 age	nmod:poss
26	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 many	obl
27	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fancied	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 knew	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 knew	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 knew	nsubj
31	already	already	ADV	_	32 knew	advmod
32	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fancied	conj
33	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	32 knew	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 so	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 so	cc
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 so	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 so	cop
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 so	advmod
39	so	so	ADV	_	12 said	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go out in a quote	past	the little mouse = mouse		the world	first, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the little mouse				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	fancy in a quote	past	the little mouse = mouse				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	do in a quote	present	many				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	know in a quote	past	the little mouse = mouse	everything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
6	not is in a quote	past	mouse			so property	tree rules

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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