Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 50
"Your truth is a falsehood," said the mouse who had not yet spoken; "I can prepare the soup, and I mean to do so."
Who acts: truth, falsehood · What happens: be, say, not speak, prepare, mean, do · To what, where: falsehood, mouse, soup · 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 (truth, falsehood), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 falsehood | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 truth | nmod:poss |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 falsehood | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 falsehood | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 falsehood | det |
| 6 | falsehood | falsehood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 falsehood | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 falsehood | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mouse | det |
| 11 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 spoken | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 spoken | advmod |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 spoken | advmod |
| 16 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 mouse | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 prepare | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 prepare | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 prepare | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 prepare | aux |
| 21 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 soup | det |
| 23 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 prepare | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 mean | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mean | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 mean | nsubj |
| 27 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 prepare | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 do | mark |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 mean | xcomp |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 do | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 prepare | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 prepare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Your truth | a falsehood | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a falsehood | the mouse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the mouse | yet | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | prepare in a quote | can | a falsehood = falsehood | the soup | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient | ||||
| 5 | mean in a quote | present | a falsehood = falsehood | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | a falsehood = falsehood not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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