Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 58
"But what was the something more of which you spoke just now?" asked the mouse-king.
Who acts: mouse king · What happens: be, speak, ask · To what, where: something · 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 (mouse king), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 something | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 something | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 something | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 something | det |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 which | amod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 spoke | nsubj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 spoke | nsubj |
| 11 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 something | acl:relcl |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 now | advmod |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 spoke | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoke | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoke | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 18 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 king | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 mouse | punct |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | something | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | past | now | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the mouse king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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