Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 6

"Now this raised in me an interest for the prisoner," continued the little mouse, "and I watched my opportunity, and slipped into his apartment, for there is a mouse-hole to be found behind every closed door.

Who acts: affair, mouse hole · What happens: raise, continue, watch, slip, be, find · To what, where: this, little mouse, opportunity, apartment, closed door · 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 (affair, mouse hole), 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	_	4 raised	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 raised	advmod
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 raised	nsubj:pass
4	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 continued	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 raised	obl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 interest	det
8	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raised	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 prisoner	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prisoner	det
11	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 interest	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 raised	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 continued	punct
14	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mouse	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mouse	amod
17	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 continued	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mouse	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 mouse	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 watched	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 watched	nsubj
22	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 continued	conj
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 opportunity	nmod:poss
24	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 watched	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 slipped	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 slipped	cc
27	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 continued	parataxis
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 apartment	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 apartment	nmod:poss
30	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 slipped	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 is	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 is	case
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 is	expl
34	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 slipped	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 hole	det
36	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hole	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 mouse	punct
38	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 is	nsubj
39	to	to	PART	_	41 found	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 found	aux:pass
41	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 hole	acl
42	behind	behind	ADP	_	45 door	case
43	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	45 door	det
44	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 door	amod
45	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 found	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise in a quote	participle · passive		this		now	in affair	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme interest=Destination
2	continue	past		the little mouse				tree rules
3	watch in a quote	past	affair	my opportunity				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme
4	slip in a quote	past			mouse's apartment			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	be in a quote	present	a mouse hole		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	find in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	a mouse hole not said here		every closed door			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»
7	close in a quote	participle						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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