Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 31

A big old Father-Rat, with his tail bitten off, was relieving his feelings in loud squeaks; and his family gave their tribute of concurrence to every word he said:

Who acts: big old Father Rat, family · What happens: bite off, relieve, give, say · To what, where: tail, feelings, loud squeaks, tribute, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big old Father Rat, family), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Rat	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Rat	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Rat	amod
4	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Rat	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Rat	punct
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 relieving	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tail	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 tail	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tail	nmod:poss
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Rat	appos
11	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tail	acl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 bitten	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Rat	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 relieving	aux
15	relieving	relieve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 feelings	nmod:poss
17	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 relieving	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 squeaks	case
19	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 squeaks	amod
20	squeaks	squeak	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 relieving	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 gave	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gave	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 family	nmod:poss
24	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	nsubj
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 relieving	parataxis
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tribute	nmod:poss
27	tribute	tribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 concurrence	case
29	concurrence	concurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tribute	nmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 word	case
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 word	det
32	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 said	nsubj
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 word	acl:relcl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 relieving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	bite off	participle		Such's tail not said here			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	relieve	past · progressive	a big old Father Rat	Such's feelings		loud squeaks	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus feeling=Experiencer
3	give	past	Such's family	rats's tribute of concurrence	every word		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tribute=Theme to word=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	family	every word not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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