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title: Next night many more mice came, and on Sunday even two rats; but the… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 148

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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.

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

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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.

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**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:pg5615:11:148
# text = 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.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
26	troubled	trouble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
35	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	_
38	too	too	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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.

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**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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