The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 136

But then it went on to tell them about Christmas Eve, when it had been adorned with sweet-meats and tapers.

Who acts: mouse · What happens: go on, tell, adorn · To what, where: birds, mouse · 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 (mouse), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 Christmas	case
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obl
11	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Christmas	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 adorned	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 adorned	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 adorned	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 adorned	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 adorned	aux:pass
17	adorned	adorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Christmas	acl:relcl
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 meats	case
19	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 meats	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 sweet	punct
21	meats	meat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 adorned	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tapers	cc
23	tapers	taper	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 meats	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	mouse			then		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	mouse not said here		birds = bird		about Christmas	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about christmas=Topic
3	adorn	past · perfect · passive		mouse			with sweet meats and tapers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with meat=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: «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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