Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 13
"No," said the mouse; "only in the tail of the mouse-king is this power contained."
Who acts: mouse, power · What happens: say, be, contain · To what, where: power · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mouse, power), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 power | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mouse | det |
| 7 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 tail | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 tail | punct |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 tail | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tail | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tail | det |
| 13 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 king | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 16 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 king | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 mouse | punct |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tail | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 power | cop |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 power | det |
| 21 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 contained | nsubj |
| 22 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 contained | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 contained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mouse | this power not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent power=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this power | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | contain in a quote | past | this power | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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