Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 116

They had never heard such an account in their lives; and after they had listened to it attentively, they said, "What a number of things you have seen? you must have been very happy."

Who acts: birds, you · What happens: not hear, listen, say, see, be · To what, where: birds, lives, life, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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 (birds, you), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 heard	advmod
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 account	det:predet
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 account	det
7	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 lives	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 lives	nmod:poss
10	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 listened	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 listened	cc
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 listened	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 listened	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 listened	aux
16	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 heard	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 listened	obl
19	attentively	attentively	ADV	_	16 listened	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 What	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 What	punct
25	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 said	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 number	det
27	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 What	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 things	case
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 number	nmod
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 seen	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 seen	aux
32	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 things	acl:relcl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 What	punct
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 happy	nsubj
35	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 happy	aux
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 happy	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 happy	cop
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 happy	advmod
39	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 What	parataxis
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not hear	past · perfect · passive		birds = bird		birds's lives		tree rules
2	listen	past · perfect	birds = bird		life		attentively property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme
3	say speech: ask	past	birds = bird					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	see in a quote	present · perfect	you	things not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
5	is in a quote	must · perfect	you				happy property	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: «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/116/