The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 148

Next night many more mice came, and on Sunday even two rats; but they did not care about the story, and that troubled the little mice, for now they thought less of it too.

Who acts: many more mice, rats, that · What happens: come, not care, trouble, think · To what, where: Sunday two rats, little mice, less

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 (many more mice, rats, that), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	amod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl:unmarked
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mice	amod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 mice	amod
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rats	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rats	cc
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 rats	case
10	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 rats	compound
11	even	even	ADV	_	13 rats	advmod
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 rats	nummod
13	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 care	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 care	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 care	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 care	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 care	advmod
19	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 story	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 story	det
22	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 care	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 troubled	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 troubled	cc
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 troubled	nsubj
26	troubled	trouble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mice	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 mice	amod
29	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 troubled	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thought	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 thought	mark
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 thought	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thought	nsubj
34	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 troubled	conj
35	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 thought	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 less	nmod
38	too	too	ADV	_	34 thought	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	many more mice		Sunday two rats	night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rat=Location
2	not care	past · do-support	rats = rat				about the story	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about story=Stimulus
3	trouble	past	that	the little mice				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mouse=Experiencer
4	think speech: other	past	rats = rat	less of hare		now		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: «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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