Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 61
Violets, the elf told me," continued the mouse, "are for the sight, the smell, and the touch; so we have only now to produce the effect of hearing and tasting;" and then, as the little mouse beat time with her staff, there came sounds of music, not such music as was heard in the forest, at the elfin feast, but such as is often heard in the kitchen--the sounds of boiling and roasting.
Who acts: Violets, we · What happens: tell, continue, be, have, produce, come · To what, where: me, mouse, effect, sounds, forest, kitchen · 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 (Violets, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 told | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 elf | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 elf | det |
| 4 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Violets | conj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 continued | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 continued | punct |
| 9 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mouse | det |
| 11 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 continued | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mouse | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 mouse | punct |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sight | cop |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 sight | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sight | det |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 continued | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 smell | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 smell | det |
| 20 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sight | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 touch | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 touch | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 touch | det |
| 24 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 continued | advcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 have | advmod |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | ccomp |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 now | advmod |
| 30 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 have | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 produce | mark |
| 32 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 now | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 effect | det |
| 34 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 produce | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 hearing | case |
| 36 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 effect | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 tasting | cc |
| 38 | tasting | tasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hearing | conj |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 came | cc |
| 42 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 55 came | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 then | punct |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 49 time | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 time | det |
| 46 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 time | amod |
| 47 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 beat | compound |
| 48 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 time | compound |
| 49 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 came | obl |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 52 staff | case |
| 51 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 staff | nmod:poss |
| 52 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 time | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 time | punct |
| 54 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 55 came | expl |
| 55 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 56 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 came | obj |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 music | case |
| 58 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 sounds | nmod |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 music | punct |
| 60 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 62 music | advmod |
| 61 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 music | amod |
| 62 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 music | appos |
| 63 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 65 heard | mark |
| 64 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 65 heard | aux:pass |
| 65 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 55 came | advcl |
| 66 | in | in | ADP | _ | 68 forest | case |
| 67 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 68 forest | det |
| 68 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 heard | obl |
| 69 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 73 feast | punct |
| 70 | at | at | ADP | _ | 73 feast | case |
| 71 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 73 feast | det |
| 72 | elfin | elfin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 73 feast | amod |
| 73 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 heard | conj |
| 74 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 80 heard | punct |
| 75 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 80 heard | cc |
| 76 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 80 heard | case |
| 77 | as | as | ADP | _ | 76 such | fixed |
| 78 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 80 heard | aux:pass |
| 79 | often | often | ADV | _ | 80 heard | advmod |
| 80 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 told | conj |
| 81 | in | in | ADP | _ | 83 kitchen | case |
| 82 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 83 kitchen | det |
| 83 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 80 heard | obl |
| 84 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 86 sounds | punct |
| 85 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 86 sounds | det |
| 86 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 83 kitchen | appos |
| 87 | of | of | ADP | _ | 88 boiling | case |
| 88 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 86 sounds | nmod |
| 89 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 90 roasting | cc |
| 90 | roasting | roasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 88 boiling | conj |
| 91 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Violets and the elf | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | continue in a quote | past | the mouse | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | for the sight and the smell | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | present | we | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | produce | to-infinitive | we not said here | the effect of hearing and tasting | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result | ||||
| 6 | come in a quote | past | Violets and the elf not said here | sounds of music | there | then; time | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme | ||
| 7 | hear in a quote | past · passive | Violets and the elf not said here | the forest | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | ||||
| 8 | hear in a quote | present · passive | Violets and the elf not said here | the kitchen | often property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | |||
| 9 | effect | hearing and tasting | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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