Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 64

And the little pot steamed, and the great pot simmered, but without any regard for each; indeed there seemed no sense in the pots at all.

Who acts: little pot, great pot · What happens: steam, simmer, seem · To what, where: sense, pots

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 pot, great pot), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 steamed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pot	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pot	amod
4	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 steamed	nsubj
5	steamed	steam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 simmered	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 simmered	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pot	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pot	amod
10	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 simmered	nsubj
11	simmered	simmer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 steamed	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seemed	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 seemed	cc
14	without	without	ADP	_	16 regard	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 regard	det
16	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seemed	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 each	case
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 regard	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 regard	punct
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	21 there	advmod
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 seemed	advmod
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 steamed	parataxis
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 sense	det
24	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seemed	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 pots	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pots	det
27	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 seemed	obl
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 pots	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 steamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	steam	participle	the little pot				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	simmer	participle	the great pot				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	seem	past		no sense	the pots at all; there	without any regard for each	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sense=Attribute

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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