Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 10
The longer the king stirs it, the stronger the soup will become.
Who acts: king, soup · What happens: stir, become · To what, where: tail
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 longer | det |
| 2 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 stirs | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stirs | nsubj |
| 5 | stirs | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stirs | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stronger | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stronger | det |
| 9 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 stirs | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 soup | det |
| 11 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 become | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 become | aux |
| 13 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stronger | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stirs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stir | present | the king | tail | long property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | become | future | the soup | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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