Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 118

But when he went on and related all about Christmas-eve, and how he had been dressed up with cakes and lights, the mice said, "How happy you must have been, you old fir-tree."

Who acts: number, mice, you · What happens: go on, dress up, say, be, tree · To what, where: number · 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 (number, mice, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 went	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 said	advcl
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 related	cc
7	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	conj
8	all	all	ADV	_	12 eve	advmod
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 eve	case
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 eve	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Christmas	punct
12	eve	eve	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dressed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dressed	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 dressed	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dressed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dressed	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 dressed	aux:pass
19	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	parataxis
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 dressed	compound:prt
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 cakes	case
22	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 dressed	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lights	cc
24	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cakes	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mice	det
27	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 happy	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 happy	punct
31	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 happy	advmod
32	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 said	ccomp
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 been	nsubj
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 been	aux
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 been	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 happy	cop
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 tree	punct
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 tree	nsubj
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 tree	amod
40	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 tree	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 fir	punct
42	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	ccomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 tree	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 tree	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go on	past	number		about Christmas eve	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about eve=Location
2	dress up	past · perfect · passive		number	with cakes and lights	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the mice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	participle			happy property	tree rules
5	tree in a quote		you			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.

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