Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 42
My sausage peg was a complete peal of bells.
Who acts: sausage peg · What happens: be · To what, where: complete peal
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 (sausage peg), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 peg | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 peg | compound |
| 3 | peg | peg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 peal | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 peal | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 peal | det |
| 6 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 peal | amod |
| 7 | peal | peal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bells | case |
| 9 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 peal | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 peal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | My sausage peg | a complete peal | of bells | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/42/