Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 11

Neither the cockchafer, nor the toad, nor the earth-worm, whom they questioned about it, would give them the least information; for none of their relations had ever been cooked or served on a silver dish.

Who acts: snails, cockchafer · What happens: question, give, cook, serve · To what, where: earth worm, least information, snails, silver dish

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snails, cockchafer), 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	Neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	3 cockchafer	cc:preconj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cockchafer	det
3	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 toad	punct
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	7 toad	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 toad	det
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cockchafer	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 worm	punct
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	13 worm	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 worm	det
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 worm	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 earth	punct
13	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 toad	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 questioned	punct
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 questioned	obj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 questioned	nsubj
17	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 worm	conj
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 questioned	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cockchafer	punct
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 information	det
25	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 information	amod
26	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 cooked	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 none	case
29	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	36 cooked	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 relations	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 relations	nmod:poss
32	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 none	nmod
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 cooked	aux
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 cooked	advmod
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 cooked	aux:pass
36	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 give	parataxis
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 served	cc
38	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 cooked	conj
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 dish	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 dish	det
41	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dish	compound
42	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 served	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	question speech: other	past	snails = snail		the earth worm			about cockchafer	vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient about it=Topic
2	give	would	the cockchafer	the least information	snails = snail				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient information=Theme
3	cook	past · perfect · passive					ever	for none	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for none=Beneficiary
4	serve	participle				a silver dish			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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