Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 63

I thought over all the stories that may be said to be connected with sausage pegs, and all that has ever been written about skewers, and sticks, and staves, and splinters came to my thoughts; the ant-queen must have had a wonderfully clear understanding.

Who acts: I, splinters, ant queen, my · What happens: think over, say, connect, write, come, have · To what, where: stories, that, thoughts, clear understanding · 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, splinters, ant queen, 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADV	_	4 all	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 stories	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stories	det
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 said	nsubj:pass
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 said	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	aux:pass
10	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stories	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	13 connected	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 connected	aux:pass
13	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 pegs	case
15	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pegs	compound
16	pegs	peg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 connected	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 written	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 written	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 written	det:predet
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 written	nsubj:pass
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 written	aux
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 written	advmod
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 written	aux:pass
24	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	conj
25	about	about	ADP	_	26 skewers	case
26	skewers	skewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 written	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sticks	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sticks	cc
29	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 skewers	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 staves	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 staves	cc
32	staves	stave	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 skewers	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 came	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 came	cc
35	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 came	nsubj
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 thoughts	case
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 thoughts	nmod:poss
39	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 came	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 had	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 queen	det
42	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 queen	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 ant	punct
44	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 had	nsubj
45	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 had	aux
46	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 had	aux
47	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	parataxis
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 understanding	det
49	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	50 clear	advmod
50	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 understanding	amod
51	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 had	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think over speech: other	past	I	all stories				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot story=Theme
2	say speech: assert	may · passive		all stories				tree rules
3	connect	to-infinitive · passive					with sausage pegs	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: with peg=Co-Patient
4	write	present · perfect · passive		that		ever	about skewers and sticks and staves	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient about skewer=Topic
5	come	past	splinters		my thoughts			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thought=Initial_Location
6	have	must · perfect	the ant queen	a clear understanding				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=Patient
7	think		my					nom thought «cognition 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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