Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 6

Then my old grandmother sought out a manuscript which, however, she could not read, but had heard it read, and in it was written, 'Those who are poets can make soup of sausage skewers.'

Who acts: old grandmother, grandmother, manuscript, poets · What happens: seek out, not read, hear, read, write, be · To what, where: manuscript, poets, soup · 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 (old grandmother, grandmother, manuscript, poets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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