Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 52
What use will it be,' I asked, 'to the mouse-king or to our whole mighty kingdom that I have seen all these beautiful things?
Who acts: promise, whole mighty kingdom · What happens: use, be, see · To what, where: beautiful things
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 (promise, whole mighty kingdom), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 use | nsubj |
| 2 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 use | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 14 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 king | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 mouse | punct |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 kingdom | cc |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 kingdom | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 kingdom | amod |
| 21 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 kingdom | amod |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 king | conj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 seen | nsubj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 seen | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 seen | aux |
| 26 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 kingdom | acl:relcl |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 things | det:predet |
| 28 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 30 things | det |
| 29 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 things | amod |
| 30 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 seen | obj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | future | promise | to the mouse king or our whole mighty kingdom; ask property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | present · perfect | our whole mighty kingdom | all beautiful things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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