Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 183

At last the little Mice stayed away also; and the Tree sighed: “After all, it was very pleasant when the sleek little Mice sat round me, and listened to what I told them.

Who acts: last little Mice, Tree, much, sleek little Mice, Rats · What happens: stay away, sigh, be, sit, listen, tell · To what, where: 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 (last little Mice, Tree, much, sleek 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Mice	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mice	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Mice	amod
5	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stayed	nsubj
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 stayed	advmod
8	also	also	ADV	_	6 stayed	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 sighed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sighed	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Tree	det
12	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sighed	nsubj
13	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stayed	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 pleasant	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 pleasant	punct
16	After	after	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 pleasant	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 all	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pleasant	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pleasant	cop
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 pleasant	advmod
22	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sighed	conj
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 sat	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Mice	det
25	sleek	sleek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Mice	amod
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Mice	amod
27	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sat	nsubj
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pleasant	advcl
29	round	round	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 sat	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 listened	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 listened	cc
33	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stayed	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 what	case
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 listened	obl
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 told	nsubj
37	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 what	acl:relcl
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 told	iobj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay away	past	the last little Mice			away property	tree rules
2	sigh	past	the Tree				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	much		after all	pleasant property	tree rules
4	sit in a quote	past	the sleek little Mice			round the Rats = rat	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	listen in a quote	past					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	the Rats = rat	Rats = rat			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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