Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 16

They declared that the problem would never be solved, that the thing was an impossibility.

Who acts: forests, thing · What happens: declare, not solve, be · To what, where: problem, impossibility · 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 (forests, thing), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 declared	nsubj
2	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 solved	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 problem	det
5	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 solved	nsubj:pass
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 solved	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 solved	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 solved	aux:pass
9	solved	solve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 declared	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 impossibility	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 impossibility	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 impossibility	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 impossibility	cop
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 impossibility	det
16	impossibility	impossibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 solved	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	forests = forest		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not solve	would · passive		the problem	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	is a	past	the thing	a impossibility	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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