Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 53

I cannot shake the sausage peg and say, Look, here is the skewer, and now the soup will come.

Who acts: I, skewer, soup · What happens: not shake, say, look, be, come · To what, where: sausage peg · 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, skewer, soup), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 shake	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shake	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 shake	advmod
4	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 peg	det
6	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 peg	compound
7	peg	peg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shake	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 say	cc
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 shake	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Look	punct
11	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 shake	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 here	punct
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 Look	advmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 here	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 skewer	det
16	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 here	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 come	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 soup	det
21	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 shake	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not shake	can	I	the sausage peg			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent peg=Patient
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	look	infinitive	I not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	present	the skewer			here property	tree rules
5	come	future	the soup		now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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