Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 134

The little mice also kept away after this, and the tree sighed, and said, "It was very pleasant when the merry little mice sat round me and listened while I talked.

Who acts: little mice, tree, present, merry little mice · What happens: keep away, sigh, say, be, sit, listen · 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 (little mice, tree, present, merry 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 mice	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mice	amod
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	nsubj
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 kept	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sighed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sighed	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sighed	nsubj
13	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pleasant	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 pleasant	punct
19	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pleasant	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pleasant	cop
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 pleasant	advmod
22	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 sat	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mice	det
25	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mice	amod
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mice	amod
27	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sat	nsubj
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pleasant	advcl
29	round	round	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 sat	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 listened	cc
32	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sat	conj
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	35 talked	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 talked	nsubj
35	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 listened	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	keep away	past	the little mice	after this	away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sigh	past	the tree			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the little mice not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	past	present		pleasant property	tree rules
5	sit in a quote	past	the merry little mice		round the little mice = mouse	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	listen in a quote	past	the merry little mice not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
7	talk in a quote	past	the little mice = mouse			vn talk-37.5 «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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