Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 126

And then the tree related the whole story; he could remember every single word, and the little mice was so delighted with it, that they were ready to jump to the top of the tree.

Who acts: tree, Dumpty, little mice, story · What happens: relate, remember, be, jump · To what, where: whole story, single word

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 (tree, Dumpty, little mice, story), 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	_	5 related	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 related	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 related	nsubj
5	related	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 story	amod
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 related	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 remember	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 remember	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 remember	aux
12	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 related	conj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 word	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 word	amod
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remember	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 delighted	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 delighted	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mice	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mice	amod
20	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 delighted	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 delighted	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 delighted	advmod
23	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 remember	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 delighted	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ready	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 ready	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ready	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ready	cop
30	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 remember	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 jump	mark
32	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ready	xcomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 top	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 top	det
35	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 jump	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 tree	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tree	det
38	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 top	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 related	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	relate	past	the tree	the whole story	then		vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
2	remember	could	Dumpty	every single word			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	is	past	the little mice			with word; delighted property	tree rules
4	is	past	story			ready property	tree rules
5	jump	to-infinitive	story not said here			to the top of the tree result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result

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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