Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 22
What has a little mouse to do with a Maypole dance?
What happens: have, do · To what, where: little mouse
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: 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mouse | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mouse | amod |
| 5 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mouse | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 dance | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dance | det |
| 10 | Maypole | Maypole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 dance | compound |
| 11 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a little mouse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | a little mouse not said here | with a Maypole dance | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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