Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 159

And then he told all about his youth; and the little Mice had never heard the like before; and they listened and said,

Who acts: sun, birds · What happens: tell, not hear, listen, say · To what, where: youth, little Mice · 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 (sun, birds), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 youth	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 youth	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 youth	nmod:poss
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heard	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Mice	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Mice	amod
13	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heard	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 heard	advmod
16	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 before	det
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 before	case
19	before	before	ADV	_	16 heard	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 listened	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 listened	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 listened	nsubj
23	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 listened	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	sun	sun's youth	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient
2	not hear	past · perfect · passive		the little Mice		before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	listen	past	birds = bird				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	birds = bird not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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