Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 174

Next night two more Mice came, and on Sunday two Rats even; but they said the stories were not interesting, which vexed the little Mice; and they, too, now began to think them not so very amusing either.

Who acts: two more Mice, Rats, stories · What happens: come, say, not be, vex, begin, not think · To what, where: Sunday two Rats, little Mice, Rats · 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 (two more Mice, Rats, stories), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	amod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl:unmarked
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Mice	nummod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 Mice	amod
5	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Rats	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Rats	cc
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 Rats	case
10	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Rats	compound
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 Rats	nummod
12	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
13	even	even	ADV	_	12 Rats	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stories	det
19	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 interesting	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 interesting	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 interesting	advmod
22	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 vexed	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 vexed	nsubj
25	vexed	vex	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 interesting	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Mice	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Mice	amod
28	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 vexed	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 they	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 they	cc
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 began	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 they	punct
33	too	too	ADV	_	36 began	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 too	punct
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 began	advmod
36	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	38 think	mark
38	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 began	xcomp
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 think	obj
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 think	advmod
41	so	so	ADV	_	43 amusing	advmod
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 amusing	advmod
43	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 think	ccomp
44	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 amusing	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	two more Mice		Sunday two Rats	night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rat=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Rats = rat					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	past	the stories				interesting property	tree rules
4	vex	past		the little Mice				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mouse=Experiencer
5	begin	past	Rats = rat			now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	not think speech: other	to-infinitive	Rats = rat not said here	Rats = rat				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

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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