Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 5
There I found plenty of delicate food, but no opportunity for learning how to make soup from a sausage skewer.
Who acts: I, opportunity · What happens: find, learn, make · To what, where: plenty, soup, 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 (I, opportunity), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 found | expl |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 food | case |
| 6 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 food | amod |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plenty | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 opportunity | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 opportunity | cc |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 opportunity | det |
| 11 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | ccomp |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 learning | mark |
| 13 | learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 opportunity | acl |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 make | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 learning | xcomp |
| 17 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 skewer | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 skewer | det |
| 20 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 skewer | compound |
| 21 | skewer | skewer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | I | plenty of delicate food | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Topic | |||
| 2 | learn | gerund | no opportunity not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | no opportunity not said here | 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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