Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 116

They wanted to hear about Ivedy-Avedy too, but the little man only told them about Humpy-Dumpy.

Who acts: Ivedy, little man · What happens: want, hear, tell · To what, where: Ivedy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivedy, little man), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hear	mark
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 Ivedy	case
6	Ivedy	Ivedy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obl
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Avedy	punct
8	Avedy	Avedy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ivedy	conj
9	too	too	ADV	_	4 hear	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 told	advmod
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	about	about	SCONJ	_	21 Dumpy	mark
19	Humpy	humpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Dumpy	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Humpy	punct
21	Dumpy	dumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 told	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	Ivedy			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ivedy not said here		about Ivedy and Avedy	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about ivedy=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	past	the little man	Ivedy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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