Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 38

Yet she was a very clever lady-owl; she explained to me that the watchman could only hoot with the horn that hung loose at his side; and then she said he is so terribly proud of it, that he imagines himself an owl in the tower;--wants to do great things, but only succeeds in small; all soup on a sausage skewer.

Who acts: fact, watchman, horn, creature · What happens: be, explain, hoot, hang, say, imagine · To what, where: clever lady owl, me, side, creature, great things, small · 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 (fact, watchman, horn, creature), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	9 owl	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 owl	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 owl	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 owl	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 clever	advmod
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 owl	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 owl	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 lady	punct
9	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 explained	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 explained	nsubj
12	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 owl	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 explained	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 hoot	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 watchman	det
17	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hoot	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 hoot	aux
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 hoot	advmod
20	hoot	hoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 explained	ccomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 horn	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 horn	det
23	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hoot	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 hung	nsubj
25	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 horn	acl:relcl
26	loose	loose	ADV	_	25 hung	advmod
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 side	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 side	nmod:poss
29	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hung	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 said	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 said	nsubj
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 explained	conj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 proud	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 proud	cop
37	so	so	ADV	_	39 proud	advmod
38	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	39 proud	advmod
39	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 said	ccomp
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 proud	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 imagines	punct
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 imagines	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 imagines	nsubj
45	imagines	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 proud	conj
46	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 imagines	obj
47	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 owl	det
48	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 imagines	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 tower	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 tower	det
51	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 owl	nmod
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 wants	punct
53	--	--	PUNCT	_	54 wants	punct
54	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 explained	conj
55	to	to	PART	_	56 do	mark
56	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 wants	xcomp
57	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 things	amod
58	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 do	obj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 succeeds	punct
60	but	but	CCONJ	_	62 succeeds	cc
61	only	only	ADV	_	62 succeeds	advmod
62	succeeds	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 wants	conj
63	in	in	ADP	_	64 small	case
64	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 succeeds	obl
65	;	;	PUNCT	_	67 soup	punct
66	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	67 soup	det
67	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 owl	conj
68	on	on	ADP	_	71 skewer	case
69	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	71 skewer	det
70	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 skewer	compound
71	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 soup	nmod
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 owl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	fact	a clever lady owl and all soup on a sausage skewer					tree rules
2	explain speech: assert	past	fact		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	hoot	could	the watchman					with the horn	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with horn=Theme
4	hang	past	the horn			creature's side		loose property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location
5	say speech: assert	past	fact				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	creature					of side; proud, terribly property	tree rules
7	imagine	present	creature	creature					tree rules
8	want	present	fact not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	fact not said here	great things					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
10	succeed	present	fact not said here			small			vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in small=Eventuality

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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