The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 103
She answered that a fairy, whose name she did not know, had come and carried her off by force.
Who acts: Queen, fairy · What happens: answer, not know, come, carry off, name · To what, where: name, Queen · 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 (Queen, fairy), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fairy | det |
| 5 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 name | punct |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fairy | appos |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 know | advmod |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 name | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fairy | punct |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 carried | cc |
| 17 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 answered | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carried | obj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 carried | compound:prt |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 force | case |
| 21 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carried | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Queen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | Queen | a fairy's name not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | a fairy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | carry off | past | Queen not said here | Queen | by force | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 5 | name | a fairy | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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