Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 49
Why you have just seen it; you scarcely knew your sausage skewer again, I am sure.'
Who acts: you, I · What happens: see, know, be · To what, where: chief, sausage skewer
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 (you, 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 seen | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 seen | advmod |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 sure | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 10 knew | advmod |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | conj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 skewer | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 skewer | compound |
| 13 | skewer | skewer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | obj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 knew | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 sure | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sure | cop |
| 18 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 sure | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | you | chief | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | past | you | your sausage skewer | again | scarcely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer skewer=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | is | present | I | sure property | 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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