Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 46

I thought over all this, and saw quite plainly that if truth was really so far above everything else, it must be much more valuable than soup from a sausage skewer.

Who acts: I, truth · What happens: think over, see, be · To what, where: this

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 (I, truth), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADV	_	2 thought	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 this	det:predet
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 thought	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 plainly	advmod
10	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	8 saw	advmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 valuable	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 valuable	mark
13	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 valuable	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 valuable	cop
15	really	really	ADV	_	17 far	advmod
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 far	advmod
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 valuable	advmod
18	above	above	ADP	_	19 everything	case
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 far	obl
20	else	else	ADV	_	19 everything	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 far	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 valuable	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 valuable	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 valuable	cop
25	much	much	ADV	_	26 more	advmod
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 valuable	advmod
27	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saw	ccomp
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 soup	case
29	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 valuable	obl
30	from	from	ADP	_	33 skewer	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 skewer	det
32	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 skewer	compound
33	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 soup	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think over speech: other	past	I	this	over property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past			plainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a condition, not said to happen	must · past	truth		than soup from a sausage skewer; far, valuable property	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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