Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 5
These words had given rise to other words, and at length they were written down and registered: 'The whole affair is like making soup of sausage skewers,' said he, 'but the soup may cost him his neck.'
Who acts: whole affair, affair, soup · What happens: give, write down, register, make, say, cost · To what, where: words, length, soup, neck, affair · 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 (whole affair, affair, soup), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 given | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 written | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 written | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 length | case |
| 12 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 written | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 written | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 written | aux:pass |
| 15 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 given | parataxis |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 written | compound:prt |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 registered | cc |
| 18 | registered | register | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 written | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 making | punct |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 affair | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 affair | amod |
| 23 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 making | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 making | aux |
| 25 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 26 making | mark |
| 26 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 said | ccomp |
| 27 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 making | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 skewers | case |
| 29 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 skewers | compound |
| 30 | skewers | skewer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 soup | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 making | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 making | punct |
| 33 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | conj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 said | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 he | punct |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 he | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 cost | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 soup | det |
| 39 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 cost | nsubj |
| 40 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 cost | aux |
| 41 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 said | conj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 cost | iobj |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 neck | nmod:poss |
| 44 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 cost | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | this words | to other words | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient rise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | write down | past · passive | words = word | length | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | register | past | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | make | present · progressive | the whole affair | soup of sausage skewers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soup=Product | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | affair | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | cost | may | the soup | affair's neck | affair | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary neck=Value |
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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