Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 9
Will the mouse-king be pleased now to dip his tail into the boiling water, and stir it round with the tail.
Who acts: mouse king · What happens: be, dip, boil, stir · To what, where: tail, boiling water
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 king), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleased | aux |
| 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 pleased | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pleased | cop |
| 7 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dip | advcl |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 dip | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 dip | mark |
| 10 | dip | dip | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tail | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dip | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 15 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 water | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dip | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stir | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stir | cc |
| 19 | stir | stir | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 dip | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stir | obj |
| 21 | round | round | ADV | _ | 19 stir | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 tail | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tail | det |
| 24 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stir | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dip | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | the mouse king | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dip | to-infinitive | king's tail | the boiling water | now | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme into water=Destination | |||
| 3 | boil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | stir | infinitive | tail | with the tail; round property | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with tail=Co-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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