Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 51

Then I told them all about it, and why I had travelled so far, and also what promise had been made at home to the one who should discover the method of preparing this soup. '

Who acts: I, one · What happens: tell, travell, make, discover, prepare · To what, where: elves, promise, one, home, method, 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 (I, one), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 it	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 travelled	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 travelled	cc
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 travelled	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 travelled	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 travelled	aux
13	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 far	advmod
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 travelled	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 what	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 what	cc
18	also	also	ADV	_	19 what	advmod
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 told	parataxis
20	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 made	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 made	aux:pass
23	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 what	acl:relcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 home	case
25	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 one	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obl
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 discover	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 discover	aux
31	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 one	acl:relcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 method	det
33	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 discover	obj
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 preparing	mark
35	preparing	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 method	advcl
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 soup	det
37	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 preparing	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 what	punct
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I		elves = elf		then	about chief	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about it=Topic
2	travell	past · perfect	I					far property	tree rules
3	make	past · perfect · passive		promise	the one	home			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	discover	should	the one	the method					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=Topic
5	prepare	gerund	the one not said here	this soup					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient

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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