Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 18

But many of the mice, as they were returning home, said that the soup could not be properly called "soup from a sausage skewer," but "soup from a mouse's tail."

Who acts: thoughts, many · What happens: return, say, not call · To what, where: soup · 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 (thoughts, many), 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	_	13 said	cc
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 mice	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mice	det
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 many	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 returning	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 returning	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 returning	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 returning	aux
10	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 many	conj
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 returning	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 many	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 called	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 soup	det
16	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	nsubj:pass
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 called	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 called	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 called	aux:pass
20	properly	properly	ADV	_	21 called	advmod
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	ccomp
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 soup	punct
23	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	xcomp
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 skewer	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 skewer	det
26	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 skewer	compound
27	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 soup	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 soup	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 soup	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 soup	cc
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 soup	punct
32	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 soup	conj
33	from	from	ADP	_	37 tail	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 mouse	det
35	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tail	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 mouse	case
37	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 soup	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	return	past · progressive	thoughts = thought		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	many of the mice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not call	could · passive		the soup	properly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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