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title: The rumor reached us of the royal prize offered to those who should… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The rumor reached us of the royal prize offered to those who should be able to make soup from a sausage skewer. Who acts: rumor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 5

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The rumor reached us of the royal prize offered to those who should be able to make soup from a sausage skewer.

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**Who acts:** rumor · **What happens:** reach, offer, be, make · **To what, where:** us, royal prize, soup, sausage skewer

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rumor), 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:pg27200:180:5
# text = The rumor reached us of the royal prize offered to those who should be able to make soup from a sausage skewer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rumor	rumor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	skewer	skewer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the rumor | us |  |  |  | of the royal prize | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | participle |  | the royal prize *not said here* |  | the royal prize |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to that=Goal |
| 3 | **is** | should |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | soup |  | a sausage skewer |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset soup=Product from skewer=Material |

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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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