Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 17
How little I thought that in this place, on the very first night, I should be initiated into the manner of its preparation.
Who acts: I, manner · What happens: think, initiate, prepare · To what, where: little, I, place · 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 (I, manner), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 little | advmod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 initiated | mark |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 initiated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 night | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 first | advmod |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 night | amod |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 initiated | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 initiated | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 initiated | aux:pass |
| 19 | initiated | initiate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 manner | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 manner | det |
| 22 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 initiated | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 preparation | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 preparation | nmod:poss |
| 25 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 manner | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | little | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | initiate | should · passive | I | this place | into the manner of manner's preparation | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | prepare | manner | nom preparation «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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