Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 56
But before the little mouse explained what this something more was, she stretched her staff out to the king, and as it touched him the most beautiful bunch of violets sprang forth and filled the place with perfume.
Who acts: little mouse, something, breeze, staff, beautiful bunch · What happens: explain, be, stretch out, touch, sprang, fill · To what, where: staff, king, place · 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 (little mouse, something, breeze, staff), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 explained | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 explained | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mouse | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mouse | amod |
| 5 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 explained | nsubj |
| 6 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 explained | ccomp |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 something | det |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 what | nsubj |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 what | advmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | cop |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stretched | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stretched | nsubj |
| 14 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 explained | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 staff | nmod:poss |
| 16 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stretched | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 stretched | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 king | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stretched | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 touched | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 touched | cc |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 touched | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 touched | nsubj |
| 25 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 explained | parataxis |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 touched | obj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bunch | det |
| 28 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 29 beautiful | advmod |
| 29 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bunch | amod |
| 30 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sprang | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 violets | case |
| 32 | violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 bunch | nmod |
| 33 | sprang | sprang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 touched | parataxis |
| 34 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 33 sprang | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 filled | cc |
| 36 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 touched | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 place | det |
| 38 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 filled | obj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 perfume | case |
| 40 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 filled | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | past | the little mouse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | something | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stretch out | past | breeze | breeze's staff | to the king result; out property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent staff=Patient to king=Result | |||
| 4 | touch | past | staff | king | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | sprang | present | the beautiful bunch of violets | forth property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fill | past | staff not said here | the place | with perfume | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent place=Patient with perfume=Instrument |
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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