Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 48
The mice are an enlightened people, and the mouse-king is above them all.
Who acts: mice, mouse king · What happens: enlighten, be · To what, where: enlightened people
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 (mice, mouse king), 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 | 2 mice | det |
| 2 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 people | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 people | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 5 | enlightened | enlighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 them | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 them | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 10 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 mouse | punct |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 them | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 them | cop |
| 14 | above | above | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 people | nmod |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enlighten | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the mice | a enlightened people | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the mouse king | above people; all nmod:unmarked | 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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