The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 102
At this moment in came the gaoler, and when he missed the little Princess he at once told the King, who came in a great fury asking what the Queen had done with her.
Who acts: gaoler, King, great fury, Queen · What happens: come, miss, princess, tell, ask, do · To what, where: great fury · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gaoler, King, great fury, Queen), 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 | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | nmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gaoler | det |
| 7 | gaoler | gaoler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 missed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 missed | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 missed | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 missed | nsubj |
| 12 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Princess | amod |
| 15 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 missed | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 Princess | nsubj |
| 17 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 19 told | mark |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 told | advmod |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 missed | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 came | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 told | ccomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 fury | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fury | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fury | amod |
| 28 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 29 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 fury | acl |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 asking | obj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Queen | det |
| 32 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 done | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 done | aux |
| 34 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 what | acl:relcl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 her | case |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 done | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the gaoler | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | miss | past | gaoler | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | princess | gaoler | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | gaoler not said here | once property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come | past | the King | a great fury | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fury=Location | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | gerund | a great fury not said here | a great fury | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | do | past · perfect | the Queen | with Princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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