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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

detnsubj:passauxobjcaseamodoblpunctcccaseoblnsubj:passaux:passparataxiscompound:prtccconjpunctpunctdetamodnsubjauxmarkccompobjcasecompoundnmodpunctpunctconjnsubjpunctpunctccdetnsubjauxconjiobjnmod:possobjpunctpunctrootTheseDETwordsNOUNhadAUXgivenVERBriseNOUNtoADPotherADJwordsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJatADPlengthNOUNtheyPRONwereAUXwrittenVERBdownADPandCCONJregisteredVERB:PUNCT'PUNCTTheDETwholeADJaffairNOUNisAUXlikeSCONJmakingVERBsoupNOUNofADPsausageNOUNskewersNOUN,PUNCT'PUNCTsaidVERBhePRON,PUNCT'PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETsoupNOUNmayAUXcostVERBhimPRONhisPRONneckNOUN.PUNCT'PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem2 wordsdet
2wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur4 givennsubj:pass
3hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 givenaux
4givengiveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5riseriseNOUNNumber=Sing4 givenobj
6totoADP_8 wordscase
7otherotherADJDegree=Pos8 wordsamod
8wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur4 givenobl
9,,PUNCT_15 writtenpunct
10andandCCONJ_15 writtencc
11atatADP_12 lengthcase
12lengthlengthNOUNNumber=Sing15 writtenobl
13theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs15 writtennsubj:pass
14werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 writtenaux:pass
15writtenwriteVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 givenparataxis
16downdownADP_15 writtencompound:prt
17andandCCONJ_18 registeredcc
18registeredregisterVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 writtenconj
19::PUNCT_4 givenpunct
20''PUNCT_26 makingpunct
21ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 affairdet
22wholewholeADJDegree=Pos23 affairamod
23affairaffairNOUNNumber=Sing26 makingnsubj
24isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 makingaux
25likelikeSCONJ_26 makingmark
26makingmakeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part33 saidccomp
27soupsoupNOUNNumber=Sing26 makingobj
28ofofADP_30 skewerscase
29sausagesausageNOUNNumber=Sing30 skewerscompound
30skewersskewerNOUNNumber=Plur27 soupnmod
31,,PUNCT_26 makingpunct
32''PUNCT_26 makingpunct
33saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 givenconj
34hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 saidnsubj
35,,PUNCT_34 hepunct
36''PUNCT_34 hepunct
37butbutCCONJ_41 costcc
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 soupdet
39soupsoupNOUNNumber=Sing41 costnsubj
40maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin41 costaux
41costcostVERBVerbForm=Inf33 saidconj
42himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 costiobj
43hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs44 necknmod:poss
44neckneckNOUNNumber=Sing41 costobj
45..PUNCT_4 givenpunct
46''PUNCT_4 givenpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1givepast · perfect · passivethis wordsto other wordsvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient rise=Theme
2write downpast · passivewords = wordlengthvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3registerpastvn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4makepresent · progressivethe whole affairsoup of sausage skewersvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soup=Product
5say speech: assertpastaffairvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6costmaythe soupaffair's neckaffairvn 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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