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description: These words had given rise to other words, and at length they were written down and registered: 'The whole affair is like making soup of sausage skewers,' said he, 'but the soup may cost him his neck.' Who acts: whole affair, affair, soup. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 5

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These words had given rise to other words, and at length they were written down and registered: 'The whole affair is like making soup of sausage skewers,' said he, 'but the soup may cost him his neck.'

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**Who acts:** whole affair, affair, soup · **What happens:** give, write down, register, make, say, cost · **To what, where:** words, length, soup, neck, affair · **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 (whole affair, affair, soup), 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:pg27200:181:5
# text = These words had given rise to other words, and at length they were written down and registered: 'The whole affair is like making soup of sausage skewers,' said he, 'but the soup may cost him his neck.'
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	registered	register	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	affair	affair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	ccomp	_	_
27	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	skewers	skewer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
33	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	iobj	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | this words |  |  |  | to other words | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient rise=Theme |
| 2 | **write down** | past · passive |  | words *= word* |  | length |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **register** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | present · progressive | the whole affair | soup of sausage skewers |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soup=Product |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | affair |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **cost** | may | the soup | affair's neck | affair |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary neck=Value |

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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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