Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 5
The rumor reached us of the royal prize offered to those who should be able to make soup from a sausage skewer.
Who acts: rumor · What happens: reach, offer, be, make · To what, where: us, royal prize, soup, sausage skewer
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 (rumor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rumor | det |
| 2 | rumor | rumor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 prize | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prize | det |
| 7 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 prize | amod |
| 8 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obl |
| 9 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 prize | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 those | case |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 offered | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 able | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 able | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | cop |
| 15 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 those | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | xcomp |
| 18 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 skewer | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 skewer | det |
| 21 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 skewer | compound |
| 22 | skewer | skewer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the rumor | us | of the royal prize | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 2 | offer | participle | the royal prize not said here | the royal prize | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to that=Goal | ||||
| 3 | is | should | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | soup | a sausage skewer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset soup=Product from skewer=Material |
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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