Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 65
I thought of sticks as hobby-horses, staves of music or rhyme, of breaking a stick over a man's back, and heaven knows how many more phrases of the same sort relating to sticks, staves, and skewers.
Who acts: I, heaven, same sort · What happens: think, break, know, relate, phrase · To what, where: stick, back, many more phrases, same sort
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, heaven, same sort), 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 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sticks | case |
| 4 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thought | obl |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 horses | case |
| 6 | hobby | hobby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 horses | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 hobby | punct |
| 8 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 staves | punct |
| 10 | staves | stave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 horses | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 music | case |
| 12 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 staves | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 rhyme | cc |
| 14 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 music | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 breaking | punct |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 breaking | mark |
| 17 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stick | det |
| 19 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 breaking | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 back | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 back | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 man | case |
| 24 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 breaking | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 knows | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 knows | cc |
| 27 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 knows | nsubj |
| 28 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 many | advmod |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 phrases | amod |
| 31 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 phrases | amod |
| 32 | phrases | phrase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 knows | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 sort | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 sort | det |
| 35 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 sort | amod |
| 36 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 phrases | nmod |
| 37 | relating | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 sort | acl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 sticks | case |
| 39 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 relating | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 staves | punct |
| 41 | staves | stave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 sticks | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 skewers | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 skewers | cc |
| 44 | skewers | skewer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 knows | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | of sticks; as hobby horses and staves of music or rhyme | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | break | gerund | I not said here | a stick | a man's back | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stick=Patient | |||
| 3 | know | present | heaven | many more phrases of the same sort | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer phrase=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | relate | gerund | the same sort not said here | to sticks and staves | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to stick=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | phrase | the same sort | nom phrase «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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