Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 15

The idea that soup could be made from a sausage skewer was to them such an out-of-the-way, unlikely thought, that it was repeated from one to another through the whole forest.

Who acts: idea, unlikely thought · What happens: make, be, repeat · To what, where: soup, sausage skewer, way, whole forest

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 (idea, unlikely thought), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 made	mark
4	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj:pass
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 idea	acl
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 skewer	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 skewer	det
10	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 skewer	compound
11	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 way	cop
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 was	obl
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 way	det:predet
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 way	det
17	out	out	ADP	_	23 way	case
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 out	punct
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 way	case
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 of	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 the	punct
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 idea	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct
25	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thought	amod
26	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 way	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 repeated	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 repeated	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 repeated	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 repeated	aux:pass
31	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 thought	acl:relcl
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 one	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 repeated	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 another	case
35	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	33 one	nmod
36	through	through	ADP	_	39 forest	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 forest	det
38	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 forest	amod
39	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 repeated	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 idea	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	could · passive	the idea and such way and unlikely thought not said here	soup	a sausage skewer		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from skewer=Material
2	is	past			such way and unlikely thought		tree rules
3	repeat	past · passive	unlikely thought not said here	soup	the whole forest	from one to another	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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