Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 16

But the mouse-king's tail had only just touched the hot steam, when he sprang away from the chimney in a great hurry, exclaiming, "Oh, certainly, by all means, you must be my queen; and we will let the soup question rest till our golden wedding, fifty years hence; so that the poor in my kingdom, who are then to have plenty of food, will have something to look forward to for a long time, with great joy."

Who acts: tail, king, you, we, kingdom, our · What happens: have, touch, spring away, exclaim, mean, be · To what, where: hot steam, chimney, queen, soup question rest, something · 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 (tail, king, you, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 mouse	punct
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tail	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 touched	advmod
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 touched	advmod
11	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 steam	det
13	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 steam	amod
14	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 touched	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sprang	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 sprang	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sprang	nsubj
18	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 touched	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 sprang	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 chimney	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chimney	det
22	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sprang	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 hurry	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hurry	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hurry	amod
26	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sprang	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 exclaiming	punct
28	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 sprang	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 means	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 means	punct
31	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	37 means	discourse
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Oh	punct
33	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	31 Oh	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Oh	punct
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 all	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 Oh	obl
37	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 exclaiming	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 queen	punct
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 queen	nsubj
40	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 queen	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 queen	cop
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 queen	nmod:poss
43	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 means	ccomp
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 let	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 let	cc
46	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 let	nsubj
47	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 let	aux
48	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	parataxis
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 rest	det
50	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 rest	compound
51	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 rest	compound
52	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 let	obj
53	till	till	ADP	_	56 wedding	case
54	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 wedding	nmod:poss
55	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 wedding	amod
56	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 rest	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 years	punct
58	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	59 years	nummod
59	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 let	obl
60	hence	hence	ADV	_	59 years	advmod
61	;	;	PUNCT	_	65 poor	punct
62	so	so	SCONJ	_	65 poor	mark
63	that	that	SCONJ	_	65 poor	mark
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 poor	det
65	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 let	parataxis
66	in	in	ADP	_	68 kingdom	case
67	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 kingdom	nmod:poss
68	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 poor	obl
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 have	punct
70	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	74 have	nsubj
71	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	74 have	cop
72	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	74 have	advmod
73	to	to	PART	_	74 have	mark
74	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	68 kingdom	acl:relcl
75	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 have	obj
76	of	of	ADP	_	77 food	case
77	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 plenty	nmod
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 have	punct
79	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	80 have	aux
80	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 let	conj
81	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	80 have	obj
82	to	to	PART	_	83 look	mark
83	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	81 something	acl
84	forward	forward	ADV	_	83 look	advmod
85	to	to	PART	_	84 forward	fixed
86	for	for	ADP	_	89 time	case
87	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	89 time	det
88	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	89 time	amod
89	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 look	obl
90	,	,	PUNCT	_	93 joy	punct
91	with	with	ADP	_	93 joy	case
92	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	93 joy	amod
93	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 have	obl
94	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 let	punct
95	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the mouse king's tail					tree rules
2	touch	past	the mouse king's tail not said here	the hot steam				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme steam=Co-Theme
3	spring away	past	king		the chimney		in a great hurry; away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from chimney=Trajectory
4	exclaim speech: express	gerund	king not said here					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	mean in a quote	present						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	must	you	my queen				tree rules
7	let in a quote	future	we	the soup question rest		till our golden wedding; year		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme
8	is in a quote	present	my kingdom			then	have property	tree rules
9	have in a quote	future	we not said here	something			with great joy	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
10	look in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	something not said here		time	forward property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
11	wed in a quote		our					nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=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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