Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 59

"Why," answered the little mouse, "I think it is what they call 'effect;'" and thereupon she turned the staff round, and behold not a single flower was to be seen upon it!

Who acts: little mouse, perfume, tails, effect · What happens: answer, think, be, call, turn, see · To what, where: staff, single flower · 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, perfume, tails, effect), 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	_	5 answered	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 answered	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mouse	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mouse	amod
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 think	nsubj
12	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 what	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 what	cop
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 think	parataxis
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 call	nsubj
17	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 what	acl:relcl
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 effect	punct
19	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 call	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 '	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 turned	cc
24	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	26 turned	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 turned	nsubj
26	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 staff	det
28	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	obj
29	round	round	ADV	_	26 turned	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 seen	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 seen	cc
32	behold	behold	INTJ	_	36 flower	discourse
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 flower	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 flower	det
35	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 flower	amod
36	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 seen	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 seen	aux:pass
38	to	to	PART	_	40 seen	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 seen	aux:pass
40	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 answered	ccomp
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 seen	obl
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the little mouse			tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	present	the little mouse = mouse			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	perfume			tree rules
4	call in a quote	present	tails = tail			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	turn	past	effect	the staff	round, thereupon property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent staff=Theme
6	see	past · passive		a single flower	upon perfume	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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