Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 10

I asked again what I should be required to do, for it seemed to me quite as difficult as to find out how to make soup of a sausage skewer.

Who acts: I, it · What happens: ask, require, do, seem, find out, make · To what, where: I, me, soup · 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 (I, it), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 asked	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 required	obj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 required	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 required	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 required	aux:pass
8	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 asked	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 required	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 seemed	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seemed	nsubj
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 seemed	obl
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 difficult	advmod
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 difficult	advmod
19	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seemed	advcl
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 find	mark
21	to	to	PART	_	22 find	mark
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 difficult	csubj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 find	compound:prt
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 make	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 find	ccomp
27	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 skewer	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 skewer	det
30	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 skewer	compound
31	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 soup	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	I			again	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	require	should · passive		I			tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	seem	past	it		me		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	find out	to-infinitive					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	make	to-infinitive		soup of a sausage skewer			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soup=Product

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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