Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 65
And as the little mouse waved her baton still more wildly, the pots foamed and threw up bubbles, and boiled over; while again the wind roared and whistled through the chimney, and at last there was such a terrible hubbub, that the little mouse let her stick fall.
Who acts: little mouse, pots, wind, hubbub · What happens: wave, foam, throw up, boil over, roar, whistle · To what, where: baton, bubbles, chimney, hubbub, fall
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, pots, wind, hubbub), 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 | _ | 6 waved | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 waved | 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 waved | nsubj |
| 6 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 baton | nmod:poss |
| 8 | baton | baton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waved | obj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 wildly | advmod |
| 11 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 6 waved | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 foamed | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pots | det |
| 14 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 foamed | nsubj |
| 15 | foamed | foam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 waved | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 threw | cc |
| 17 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 foamed | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 threw | compound:prt |
| 19 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 threw | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 boiled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 boiled | cc |
| 22 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 waved | conj |
| 23 | over | over | ADV | _ | 22 boiled | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 roared | punct |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 roared | mark |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 29 roared | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wind | det |
| 28 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 roared | nsubj |
| 29 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 waved | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 whistled | cc |
| 31 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 roared | conj |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 chimney | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 chimney | det |
| 34 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 whistled | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 last | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 last | cc |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 last | case |
| 38 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 waved | conj |
| 39 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 40 was | expl |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 last | cop |
| 41 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 hubbub | det:predet |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 hubbub | det |
| 43 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 hubbub | amod |
| 44 | hubbub | hubbub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 was | nsubj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 let | punct |
| 46 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 50 let | mark |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 mouse | det |
| 48 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 mouse | amod |
| 49 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 let | nsubj |
| 50 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 was | conj |
| 51 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 let | obj |
| 52 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 let | xcomp |
| 53 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 stick | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past | the little mouse | smell's baton | wildly property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baton=Patient | |||
| 2 | foam | past | the pots | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | throw up | past | the pots not said here | bubbles | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bubble=Theme | ||||
| 4 | boil over | participle | the little mouse not said here | over property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | roar | past | the wind | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | whistle | past | the wind not said here | the chimney | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through chimney=Location | ||||
| 7 | is | past | the little mouse not said here | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | let | past | the little mouse | hubbub | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | stick | infinitive | hubbub not said here | fall | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fall=Theme |
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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