Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 29
I saw," said the little mouse, "that the ants were always running to and fro with her burdens on their backs.
Who acts: I, rest, ants · What happens: see, say, run, fro, burden · To what, where: little mouse, backs · 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, rest, ants), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mouse | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mouse | amod |
| 8 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mouse | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mouse | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 running | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ants | det |
| 13 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 running | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 running | aux |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 running | advmod |
| 16 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 said | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 running | fixed |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fro | cc |
| 19 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 running | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 burdens | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 burdens | nmod:poss |
| 22 | burdens | burden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fro | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 backs | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 backs | nmod:poss |
| 25 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 burdens | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | rest not said here | the little mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic | ||||
| 3 | run | past · progressive | the ants | always property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fro | infinitive | the ants not said here | with rest's burdens on burdens's backs | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | burden | rest | burdens's backs | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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