The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 156

At last the little mice went off also, and the tree said, sighing: ‘Really it was very pleasant when the lively little mice sat round and listened whilst I told them stories.

Who acts: last little mice, tree, tallow, lively little mice, I · What happens: go off, say, sigh, be, sit, listen · To what, where: stories, rats · 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 (last little mice, tree, tallow, lively 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mice	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mice	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mice	amod
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 went	compound:prt
8	also	also	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sighing	punct
15	sighing	sigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 said	advcl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 pleasant	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 pleasant	punct
18	Really	really	ADV	_	22 pleasant	advmod
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	15 sighing	conj
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 sat	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mice	det
25	lively	lively	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	ADV	_	28 sat	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 listened	cc
31	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sat	conj
32	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	34 told	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 told	nsubj
34	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 listened	advcl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	iobj
36	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 told	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go off	past	the last little mice				vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the tree				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	sigh	gerund	the tree not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	tallow			pleasant property	tree rules
5	sit	past	the lively little mice			round property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	listen	past	the lively little mice not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
7	tell speech: assert	past	I	stories	rats = rat		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic

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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