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' **Who acts:** I, one · **What happens:** tell, travell, make, discover, prepare · **To what, where:** elves, promise, one, home, method, soup · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:179:51 # text = Then I told them all about it, and why I had travelled so far, and also what promise had been made at home to the one who should discover the method of preparing this soup. ' 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 all all ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 travelled travell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 also also ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 parataxis _ _ 20 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 discover discover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 method method NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 of of SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 preparing prepare VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 advcl _ _ 36 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 37 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 39 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | I | | elves *= elf* | | then | about chief | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about it=Topic | | 2 | **travell** | past · perfect | I | | | | | far *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | | promise | the one | home | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 4 | **discover** | should | the one | the method | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=Topic | | 5 | **prepare** | gerund | the one *not said here* | this soup | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=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. 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