Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 47

Six elves brought me back my sausage skewer, and at the same time asked me to make any request, which they would grant if in their power; so I begged them, if they could, to tell me how to make soup from a sausage skewer.

Who acts: Six elves, request, I · What happens: bring back, ask, make, grant, beg, tell · To what, where: sausage skewer, me, request, power, elves, soup · 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 (Six elves, request, 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	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 elves	nummod
2	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 skewer	nmod:poss
7	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skewer	compound
8	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	obl
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 asked	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 asked	xcomp
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 request	det
20	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grant	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 grant	nsubj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 grant	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 grant	aux
25	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 request	acl:relcl
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 power	mark
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 power	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 power	nmod:poss
29	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grant	xcomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 begged	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 begged	advmod
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 begged	nsubj
33	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 begged	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tell	punct
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 could	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 could	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 tell	aux
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tell	punct
40	to	to	PART	_	41 tell	mark
41	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 begged	conj
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 tell	iobj
43	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	45 make	advmod
44	to	to	PART	_	45 make	mark
45	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 tell	ccomp
46	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 make	obj
47	from	from	ADP	_	50 skewer	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 skewer	det
49	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 skewer	compound
50	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 make	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	bring back	past	Six elves	my sausage skewer	me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination skewer=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	Six elves not said here		me		time	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	Six elves not said here	any request				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset request=Product
4	grant	would	any request	elves's power				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	beg speech: request	past	I		elves = elf			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	tell speech: assert	could	I not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
7	make not said to happen	to-infinitive		soup		a sausage skewer		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset soup=Product from skewer=Material

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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