Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 59

I retraced my steps to the library, and literally devoured a whole novel, that is, properly speaking, the interior or soft part of it; the crust, or binding, I left.

Who acts: I, that, my · What happens: retrace, devour, speak, bind, leave, step · To what, where: steps, whole novel, interior · 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, that, my), 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 retraced	nsubj
2	retraced	retrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 steps	nmod:poss
4	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 retraced	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 library	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 library	det
7	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 retraced	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 devoured	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 devoured	cc
10	literally	literally	ADV	_	11 devoured	advmod
11	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 retraced	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 novel	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 novel	amod
14	novel	novel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 devoured	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 speaking	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 speaking	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 speaking	aux
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 speaking	punct
19	properly	properly	ADV	_	20 speaking	advmod
20	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 devoured	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 interior	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 interior	det
23	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 speaking	obj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 part	cc
25	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 part	amod
26	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 interior	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 part	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 crust	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 crust	det
31	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 interior	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 binding	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 binding	cc
34	binding	bind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 speaking	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 left	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 left	nsubj
37	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 retraced	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 retraced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	retrace	past	I	my steps	to the library	tree rules
2	devour	past	I not said here	a whole novel	literally property	vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent novel=Patient
3	speak speech: other	present · progressive	that	the interior or soft part of part and the crust	properly property	tree rules
4	bind	gerund	that not said here			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	leave	past	I			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	step		my			nom step «act 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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