Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 21

He said something about soup from a sausage skewer, but I could not trust him.

Who acts: jailer, I · What happens: say, not trust · To what, where: something, jailer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, 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 (jailer, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 said	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 soup	case
5	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 something	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 skewer	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 skewer	det
8	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 skewer	compound
9	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soup	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 trust	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 trust	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 trust	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 trust	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 trust	advmod
15	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 trust	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	jailer	something				about soup from a sausage skewer	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
2	not trust	could	I	jailer					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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