Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 23
I sat in the soft moss, and held my sausage skewer tight.
Who acts: I · What happens: sit, hold · To what, where: soft moss, sausage
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), 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 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 moss | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moss | det |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moss | amod |
| 6 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 held | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 held | cc |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sausage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obj |
| 12 | skewer | skew | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 sausage | amod |
| 13 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 skewer | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | I | the soft moss | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in moss=Location | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | I not said here | my sausage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=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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