The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 142

And next evening they came with four others, who wanted to hear the tree’s story, and it told still more, for it remembered everything so clearly and thought: ‘Those were happy times!

Who acts: hams, four others, mouse · What happens: come, want, hear, tell, remember, think · To what, where: story, more, everything, happy times · 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 (hams, four others, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 came	cc
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 evening	amod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl:unmarked
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 others	case
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 others	nummod
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wanted	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 others	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hear	mark
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wanted	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 story	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 tree	case
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hear	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
22	still	still	ADV	_	23 more	advmod
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 told	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 remembered	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 remembered	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 remembered	nsubj
27	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 told	conj
28	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 remembered	obj
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 clearly	advmod
30	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	27 remembered	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 thought	cc
32	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 remembered	conj
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 Those	punct
34	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 Those	punct
35	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 times	det
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 times	cop
37	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 times	amod
38	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 thought	obl:unmarked
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	hams = ham		evening	with four others	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	past	four others				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	four others not said here	the tree's story			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	past	mouse	more			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent more=Recipient
5	remember	past	mouse	everything		clearly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
6	think speech: other	past	mouse not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past		that happy times			tree rules

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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