Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 169
“What delightful stories you know,” said the Mice: and the next night they came with four other little Mice, who were to hear what the Tree recounted: and the more he related, the more he remembered himself; and it appeared as if those times had really been happy times.
Who acts: delightful stories, Mice, woods, four other little Mice, Tree, it · What happens: know, say, come, hear, recount, relate · To what, where: Tree · 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 (delightful stories, Mice, woods, four other little Mice), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 know | obj |
| 3 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stories | amod |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 know | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Mice | det |
| 11 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 night | amod |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 Mice | case |
| 20 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 Mice | nummod |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Mice | amod |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Mice | amod |
| 23 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 came | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hear | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 hear | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 hear | aux |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 hear | mark |
| 28 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 Mice | conj |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 recounted | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Tree | det |
| 31 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 recounted | nsubj |
| 32 | recounted | recount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 hear | ccomp |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 related | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 related | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 more | det |
| 36 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 38 related | advmod |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 related | nsubj |
| 38 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 related | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 more | det |
| 41 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 43 remembered | advmod |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 remembered | nsubj |
| 43 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 related | advcl |
| 44 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 43 remembered | obj |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 appeared | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 appeared | cc |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 appeared | nsubj |
| 48 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 49 | as | as | ADP | _ | 57 times | case |
| 50 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 57 times | mark |
| 51 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 52 times | det |
| 52 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 times | nsubj |
| 53 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 times | aux |
| 54 | really | really | ADV | _ | 57 times | advmod |
| 55 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 57 times | cop |
| 56 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 times | amod |
| 57 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 appeared | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | delightful stories | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Mice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | past | woods = wood | night | with four other little Mice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | hear | past | four other little Mice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | recount speech: other | past | the Tree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 6 | relate | past | Tree | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | remember | past | Tree | Tree | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 8 | appear | past | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | that times | as happy times | tree rules |
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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