Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 75

She had lost her sausage skewer, but not her voice; for she began to speak at once as if they only waited for her, and would hear her only, and as if nothing else in the world was of the least consequence.

Who acts: rest, thoughts, nothing · What happens: lose, begin, speak, wait, hear, be · To what, where: sausage skewer, rest · 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 (rest, thoughts, nothing), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 skewer	nmod:poss
5	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skewer	compound
6	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 voice	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 voice	cc
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 voice	advmod
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 voice	nmod:poss
11	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skewer	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 began	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 speak	mark
17	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 once	case
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 speak	obl
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 waited	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 waited	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 waited	nsubj
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 waited	advmod
24	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 speak	advcl
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 waited	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hear	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hear	cc
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 hear	aux
30	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lost	advcl
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hear	obj
32	only	only	ADV	_	30 hear	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 consequence	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 consequence	cc
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 consequence	mark
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 consequence	mark
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	46 consequence	nsubj
38	else	else	ADV	_	37 nothing	advmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 world	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 world	det
41	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 nothing	nmod
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 consequence	cop
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 consequence	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 consequence	det
45	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	46 consequence	amod
46	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hear	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	rest	rest's sausage skewer but rest's voice		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skewer=Eventuality
2	begin	past	rest			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	rest not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wait	past	thoughts = thought		for rest	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	would	rest not said here	rest		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	nothing		of the least consequence	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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