Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 1
"I was born in the library, at a castle," said the second mouse. "
Who acts: second mouse · What happens: bear, say · To what, where: second mouse, library · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second mouse), 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 | _ | 4 born | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | aux:pass |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 library | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 library | det |
| 7 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 born | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 castle | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 born | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mouse | det |
| 16 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 mouse | amod |
| 17 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear in a quote | past · passive | the second mouse = mouse | the library | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the second mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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