Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 121

And the next night four other mice came with them to hear what the tree had to tell.

Who acts: next night, tree · What happens: come, hear, have, tell · 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 (next night, tree), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 mice	nummod
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mice	amod
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 night	nmod
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hear	mark
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 came	advcl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 had	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hear	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 tell	mark
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	past	the next night four other mice	with story	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	to-infinitive	the next night four other mice not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have	past	the tree		tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the tree not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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