Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 36
I could not therefore make an error, so I ate her up.
Who acts: I · What happens: not make, eat up · To what, where: error, queen
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), 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 | 5 make | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 make | advmod |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 make | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 error | det |
| 7 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ate | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 ate | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ate | nsubj |
| 11 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ate | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 ate | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | could | I | a error | therefore property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent error=Product | |||
| 2 | eat up | past | I | queen | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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