Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 53

"And when Phantaesus came the feather was plucked, and," said the little mouse, "I seized and put it in water, and kept it there till it was quite soft.

Who acts: Phantaesus, little mouse, opportunity · What happens: come, pluck, say, seize, put, keep · To what, where: feather, opportunity, water · 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 (Phantaesus, little mouse, opportunity), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 came	advmod
4	Phantaesus	Phantaesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feather	det
7	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plucked	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 plucked	aux:pass
9	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 came	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mouse	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mouse	amod
17	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seized	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 seized	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 seized	nsubj
21	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
23	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seized	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 water	case
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 kept	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 kept	cc
29	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 kept	obj
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 kept	advmod
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 soft	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 soft	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 soft	cop
35	quite	quite	ADV	_	36 soft	advmod
36	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 kept	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	Phantaesus				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pluck in a quote	past · passive		the feather			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the little mouse				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	seize in a quote	past	the little mouse = mouse				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	put in a quote	past	the little mouse = mouse not said here	opportunity	water		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in water=Destination
6	keep in a quote	past	the little mouse not said here	opportunity	there		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	is in a quote	past	opportunity			soft property	tree rules

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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