Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 4

I had been told that the ship's cook must know how to prepare every dish at sea, and it is easy enough to do that with plenty of sides of bacon, and large tubs of salt meat and mouldy flour.

Who acts: cook · What happens: tell, know, prepare, be, do · To what, where: I, large tubs, dish, sea, that · 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 (cook), 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 told	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 know	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ship	det
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cook	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 ship	case
9	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 know	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 know	aux
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	ccomp
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 prepare	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 prepare	mark
14	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 know	ccomp
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 dish	det
16	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prepare	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 sea	case
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prepare	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 easy	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 easy	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 easy	expl
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 easy	cop
23	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	conj
24	enough	enough	ADV	_	23 easy	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 easy	xcomp
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 do	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 plenty	case
29	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 do	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 sides	case
31	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 plenty	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 bacon	case
33	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sides	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 tubs	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 tubs	cc
36	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 tubs	amod
37	tubs	tub	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	iobj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 meat	case
39	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 meat	compound
40	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tubs	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 flour	cc
42	mouldy	mouldy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 flour	amod
43	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 meat	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		I	large tubs of salt meat and mouldy flour			tree rules
2	know	must	the ship's cook					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	prepare	to-infinitive		every dish		sea		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient
4	is	present					easy, enough property	tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive		that			with plenty of sides of bacon	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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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