Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 15

It seemed rather a dangerous performance; but he turned round, and put out his tail, as mice do in a dairy, when they wish to skim the cream from a pan of milk with their tails and afterwards lick it off.

Who acts: It, king, mice, thoughts · What happens: seem, turn round, put out, do, wish, skim · To what, where: dangerous performance, tail, dairy, cream, pan

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 (It, king, mice, thoughts), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 performance	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 performance	det
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 performance	amod
6	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 turned	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	nsubj
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
11	round	round	ADV	_	10 turned	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
14	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 turned	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 put	compound:prt
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tail	nmod:poss
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 do	mark
20	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 do	nsubj
21	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 put	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 dairy	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 dairy	det
24	dairy	dairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 do	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wish	punct
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 wish	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wish	nsubj
28	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 do	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 skim	mark
30	skim	skim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wish	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cream	det
32	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 skim	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 pan	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 pan	det
35	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 skim	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 milk	case
37	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pan	nmod
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 tails	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 tails	nmod:poss
40	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 skim	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 lick	cc
42	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	43 lick	advmod
43	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wish	conj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 lick	obj
45	off	off	ADP	_	43 lick	compound:prt
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It	a dangerous performance			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	turn round	past	king			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	put out	participle	king not said here	king's tail			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tail=Goal
4	do	present	mice		a dairy		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wish	present	thoughts = thought				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	skim not said to happen	to-infinitive	thoughts = thought not said here	the cream	a pan of milk	with thoughts's tails	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cream=Theme from pan=Source
7	lick off	infinitive	thoughts = thought not said here	tail		afterwards property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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