--- title: The next night a great many more mice made their appearance, and on… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The next night a great many more mice made their appearance, and on Sunday two rats came with them; but they said, it was not a pretty story at all, and the little mice were very sorry, for it made them also think less of it. Who acts: great many more mice, story, appearance, little mice. 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C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great many more mice, story, appearance, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:33:127 # text = The next night a great many more mice made their appearance, and on Sunday two rats came with them; but they said, it was not a pretty story at all, and the little mice were very sorry, for it made them also think less of it. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 8 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 ccomp _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 39 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 very very ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 for for SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 46 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 also also ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 49 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 48 obj _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | a great many more mice | story's appearance | | | night | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product | | 2 | **come** | past | a great many more mice *not said here* | | | Sunday two rats | | with story | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rat=Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | story | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is a** | past | appearance | a pretty story | | all | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | the little mice | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | past | appearance | story | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* | present | appearance *not said here* | less of appearance | | | | | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/126/) - next →: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/128/) - ↑ back to [The Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/)