Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 28

"I heard the rats say one night," said the kitchen-cat, "that the greatest pleasure in the world was to eat tallow candles and to feast on rancid bacon.

Who acts: kitchen cat, rats, greatest pleasure · What happens: hear, say, be, feast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kitchen cat, rats, greatest pleasure), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rats	det
5	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	ccomp
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 night	nummod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cat	det
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cat	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 kitchen	punct
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 eat	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pleasure	det
20	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 pleasure	amod
21	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eat	nsubj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 world	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pleasure	nmod
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 eat	cop
26	to	to	PART	_	27 eat	mark
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	ccomp
28	tallow	tallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 candles	compound
29	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 eat	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 feast	cc
31	to	to	PART	_	32 feast	mark
32	feast	feast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 eat	conj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 bacon	case
34	rancid	rancid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bacon	amod
35	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 feast	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	past	the kitchen cat = cat			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the rats	night		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the kitchen cat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	past	the greatest pleasure in the world		eat property	tree rules
5	feast in a quote	to-infinitive	the greatest pleasure in the world not said here		on rancid bacon	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on bacon=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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