The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 109
But though the good little mouse did her very utmost, they could not find out where Cancaline had hidden the little Princess.
Who acts: good little mouse, words · What happens: do, not find out, hide · To what, where: Queen, Cancaline
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 (good little mouse, words), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 find | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 did | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mouse | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mouse | amod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mouse | amod |
| 6 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 did | obj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 utmost | advmod |
| 10 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 did | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 find | advmod |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 find | compound:prt |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 hidden | advmod |
| 18 | Cancaline | Cancaline | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hidden | aux |
| 20 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 find | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Princess | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Princess | amod |
| 23 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hidden | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the good little mouse | Queen | utmost property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not find out | could | words = word | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hide | past · perfect · passive | Cancaline | tree rules |
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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