Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 127

The next night a great many more mice made their appearance, and on Sunday two rats came with them; but they said, it was not a pretty story at all, and the little mice were very sorry, for it made them also think less of it.

Who acts: great many more mice, story, appearance, little mice · What happens: make, come, say, not be, be, think · To what, where: appearance, Sunday two rats, pretty story, all, story, less · 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 (great many more mice, story, appearance, little mice), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl:unmarked
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mice	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mice	amod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mice	amod
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 mice	amod
8	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 appearance	nmod:poss
11	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 rats	case
15	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 rats	compound
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 rats	nummod
17	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	obl
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 story	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 story	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 story	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 story	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 story	det
30	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 story	amod
31	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	ccomp
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 all	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 story	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sorry	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 sorry	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 mice	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 mice	amod
38	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 sorry	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 sorry	cop
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 sorry	advmod
41	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 made	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 made	punct
43	for	for	SCONJ	_	45 made	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 made	nsubj
45	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	parataxis
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 made	obj
47	also	also	ADV	_	48 think	advmod
48	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 made	advcl
49	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	48 think	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 it	case
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 less	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	a great many more mice	story's appearance		night		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product
2	come	past	a great many more mice not said here		Sunday two rats		with story	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rat=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	story					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is a	past	appearance	a pretty story	all			tree rules
5	is	past	the little mice				sorry property	tree rules
6	make	past	appearance	story				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product
7	think speech: other	present	appearance not said here	less of appearance				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot less=Theme

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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