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title: Nothing was left but the sausage skewers, and this formed a subject… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Nothing was left but the sausage skewers, and this formed a subject of conversation, till at last it turned to the proverb, 'Soup from sausage skins;' or, as the people in the neighboring country call it, 'Soup from a sausage skewer.' Who acts: this, subject, people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Ha
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 8

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Nothing was left but the sausage skewers, and this formed a subject of conversation, till at last it turned to the proverb, 'Soup from sausage skins;' or, as the people in the neighboring country call it, 'Soup from a sausage skewer.'

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**Who acts:** this, subject, people · **What happens:** leave, form, turn, neighbor, call · **To what, where:** Nothing, subject, Soup, last, sausage skewer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, subject, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:178:8
# text = Nothing was left but the sausage skewers, and this formed a subject of conversation, till at last it turned to the proverb, 'Soup from sausage skins;' or, as the people in the neighboring country call it, 'Soup from a sausage skewer.'
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	skewers	skewer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
11	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	'	's	PART	POS	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Soup	Soup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	amod	_	_
41	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
42	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	'	's	PART	POS	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	Soup	Soup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	skewer	skewer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | Nothing |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **form** | past | this | a subject of conversation |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | past | subject | Soup to the proverb |  | last |  | from sausage skins | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme at last=Source from skin=Trajectory |
| 4 | **neighbor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | present | the people in the neighboring country | subject |  | a sausage skewer |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme soup=Result |

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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.

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**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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