Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 33

The young owls made a great fuss about everything, but the only rough words she would say to them were, 'You had better go and make some soup from sausage skewers.'

Who acts: young owls, owl, only rough words, You · What happens: make, say, be, have, go · To what, where: great fuss, only rough words, words, soup, sausage skewers · 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 (young owls, owl, only rough words, You), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 owls	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 owls	amod
3	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fuss	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fuss	amod
7	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 everything	case
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 fuss	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 were	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 were	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 words	det
13	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 words	amod
14	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 words	amod
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 were	nsubj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 words	acl:relcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	obl
21	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
24	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 were	conj
26	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 had	xcomp
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 better	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 make	cc
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	conj
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 soup	det
31	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 skewers	case
33	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 skewers	compound
34	skewers	skewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 make	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	the young owls	a great fuss			about everything	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product
2	say speech: assert	would	owl	the only rough words not said here	words = word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to they=Recipient
3	be	past	the only rough words					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	You				good property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	go	infinitive	You not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	infinitive	You not said here	some soup		sausage skewers		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset soup=Product from skewer=Material

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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