Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 25

I may almost venture to say that it was as fine and soft as the fur of the mouse-king, but it was green, which is a color very agreeable to the eye.

Who acts: I, moon · What happens: venture, say, be · To what, where: color · 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, moon), 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	4 venture	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 venture	aux
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 venture	advmod
4	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 venture	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 fine	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fine	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fine	cop
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 fine	advmod
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 soft	cc
13	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fine	conj
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 fur	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fur	det
16	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fine	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 king	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
19	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 king	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 mouse	punct
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fur	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 green	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 green	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 green	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 green	cop
26	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 venture	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 color	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 color	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 color	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 color	det
31	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 green	obl
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 agreeable	advmod
33	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 color	amod
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 eye	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 eye	det
36	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 agreeable	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 venture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	venture	may	I		almost property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past			as the fur of the mouse king; fine property	tree rules
4	be					tree rules
5	is	past	moon		green property	tree rules
6	is a	present		a color		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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