Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 54

That would only produce a dish to be served when people were keeping a fast.'

Who acts: That, people · What happens: produce, serve, keep · To what, where: dish

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 (That, people), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 produce	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 produce	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 produce	advmod
4	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dish	det
6	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 produce	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 served	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 served	aux:pass
9	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dish	acl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 keeping	advmod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 keeping	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 keeping	aux
13	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 served	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fast	det
15	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 keeping	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 produce	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 produce	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	produce	would	That	a dish		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Result
2	serve	to-infinitive · passive	That not said here	a dish not said here		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»
3	keep	past · progressive	people		fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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