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description: The young owls made a great fuss about everything, but the only rough words she would say to them were, 'You had better go and make some soup from sausage skewers.' Who acts: young owls, owl, only rough words, You. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fo
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 33

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The young owls made a great fuss about everything, but the only rough words she would say to them were, 'You had better go and make some soup from sausage skewers.'

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**Who acts:** young owls, owl, only rough words, You · **What happens:** make, say, be, have, go · **To what, where:** great fuss, only rough words, words, soup, sausage skewers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, 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 (young owls, owl, only rough words, You), 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:pg27200:181:33
# text = The young owls made a great fuss about everything, but the only rough words she would say to them were, 'You had better go and make some soup from sausage skewers.'
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fuss	fuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	xcomp	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	skewers	skewer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the young owls | a great fuss |  |  |  | about everything | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | owl | the only rough words *not said here* | words *= word* |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to they=Recipient |
| 3 | **be** | past | the only rough words |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | You |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | infinitive | You *not said here* | some soup |  | sausage skewers |  |  | 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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