The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 132

And then it told them all about its young days, and the little mice had never heard anything like that before, and they listened with all their ears, and said: ‘Oh, how much you have seen!

Who acts: sun, birds · What happens: tell, not hear, listen, say, see · To what, where: birds, little mice, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, birds), 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	_	4 told	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	all	all	ADV	_	10 days	advmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 days	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 days	nmod:poss
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 days	amod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 heard	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mice	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mice	amod
15	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heard	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 heard	advmod
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	conj
19	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 before	obl:unmarked
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 anything	nmod
22	before	before	ADV	_	18 heard	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 listened	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 listened	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 listened	nsubj
26	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 ears	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 ears	det:predet
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 ears	nmod:poss
30	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 listened	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 said	cc
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 seen	punct
35	‘	'	PUNCT	_	42 seen	punct
36	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	42 seen	discourse
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 seen	punct
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	39 much	advmod
39	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 seen	nsubj:pass
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 seen	nsubj
41	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 seen	aux
42	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 said	ccomp
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	sun		birds = bird	then; day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	not hear	past · perfect · passive		the little mice			before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	listen	past	birds = bird				with birds's ears	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	sun not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see	present · perfect · passive		much				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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