Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 40
Soup from a sausage skewer,' said she, 'is only a proverb amongst mankind, and may be understood in many ways.
Who acts: Soup, owl · What happens: say, be, understand · To what, where: proverb, many ways · 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 (Soup, owl), 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 | Soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 skewer | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 skewer | det |
| 4 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skewer | compound |
| 5 | skewer | skewer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Soup | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soup | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soup | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 proverb | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 she | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 she | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 proverb | cop |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 proverb | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 proverb | det |
| 15 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 17 mankind | case |
| 17 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 proverb | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 understood | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 understood | cc |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 understood | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 understood | aux:pass |
| 22 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 ways | case |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ways | amod |
| 25 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 understood | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Soup from a sausage skewer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | owl | a proverb | amongst mankind | tree rules | |||
| 3 | understand | may · passive | Soup from a sausage skewer not said here | many ways | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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