Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 14
I kept with my own kind, and associated with the forest and field mice, who, however, knew very little, especially about what I wanted to know, and which had actually made me travel abroad.
Who acts: I, field mice, me · What happens: keep, associate, know, want, make, travel · To what, where: little, me
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 (I, field mice, me), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 kind | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 kind | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | amod |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 associated | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 associated | cc |
| 9 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 kept | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 associated | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mice | cc |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mice | compound |
| 15 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 forest | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 who | punct |
| 19 | however | however | ADV | _ | 21 knew | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 however | punct |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mice | conj |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 little | advmod |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 knew | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 what | punct |
| 25 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 27 what | advmod |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 what | case |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 knew | parataxis |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 wanted | nsubj |
| 29 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 what | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 know | mark |
| 31 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 wanted | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 made | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 made | cc |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 made | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 made | aux |
| 36 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 37 made | advmod |
| 37 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 kept | parataxis |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 made | obj |
| 39 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 made | xcomp |
| 40 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 39 travel | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | I | with my own kind | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | associate | participle | I not said here | with the forest and field mice | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with forest=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | know | past | field mice | little | however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | want | past | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | make | past · perfect · passive | me | actually property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | travel | infinitive | me not said here | abroad property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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