Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 23

They are divided into the clean and the dirty ants, their rank is pointed out by a number, and the ant-queen is number ONE; and her opinion is the only correct one on everything; she seems to have the whole wisdom of the world in her, which was just the important matter I wished to acquire.

Who acts: number, ant queen, opinion, working, I · What happens: divide, point out, be, seem, have, wish · To what, where: eggs, clean, dirty ants, number, only correct one, everything

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 (number, ant queen, opinion, working), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 divided	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 divided	aux:pass
3	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 clean	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clean	det
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 divided	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pointed	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ants	det
9	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ants	amod
10	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pointed	nsubj:pass
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ants	punct
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 rank	nmod:poss
13	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pointed	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pointed	aux:pass
15	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 divided	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 pointed	compound:prt
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 number	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 number	det
19	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pointed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 number	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 number	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 queen	det
23	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 queen	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 ant	punct
25	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 number	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 number	cop
27	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 divided	parataxis
28	ONE	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 number	flat
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 one	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 one	cc
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 opinion	nmod:poss
32	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 one	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 one	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 one	det
35	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 one	amod
36	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 one	amod
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 divided	parataxis
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 everything	case
39	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	37 one	nmod
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 seems	punct
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 seems	nsubj
42	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 divided	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 have	mark
44	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 seems	xcomp
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 wisdom	det
46	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 wisdom	amod
47	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 have	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 world	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 world	det
50	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 wisdom	nmod
51	in	in	ADP	_	52 her	case
52	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 have	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 matter	punct
54	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 matter	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 matter	cop
56	just	just	ADV	_	59 matter	advmod
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 matter	det
58	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 matter	amod
59	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 have	obl
60	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	61 wished	nsubj
61	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 matter	acl:relcl
62	to	to	PART	_	63 acquire	mark
63	acquire	acquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 wished	xcomp
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 divided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	divide	present · passive		eggs = egg	the clean		vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	point out	present · passive	a number	the dirty ants			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	is a	present	the ant queen	number			tree rules
4	is a	present	working's opinion	the only correct one	everything		tree rules
5	seem	present	working				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	have	to-infinitive	working not said here	the whole wisdom of the world		in working	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Patient
7	is a	past		the important matter			tree rules
8	wish	past	I	the important matter not said here			tree rules
9	acquire not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
10	opine		working				nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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