Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 66

"That is a strange sort of soup," said the mouse-king; "shall we not now hear about the preparation?"

Who acts: That, strange sort, we · What happens: be, say, not hear · To what, where: strange sort, mouse king · 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 (That, strange sort, we), 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	_	6 sort	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 sort	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sort	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sort	det
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sort	amod
6	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 soup	case
8	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sort	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sort	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
13	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 king	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 mouse	punct
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 hear	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 hear	punct
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hear	aux
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 hear	nsubj
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 hear	advmod
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 hear	advmod
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	parataxis
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 preparation	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 preparation	det
25	preparation	preparation	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hear	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 hear	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	a strange sort		of soup	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	a strange sort	the mouse king			tree rules
3	not hear in a quote	shall	we		now	about the preparation	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about preparation=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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