The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 111

The Queen felt quite curious about a little turkey-maiden who did not wish to be a Queen, so the little mouse conveyed herself to the poultry-yard to find out what she was like.

Who acts: Queen, little mouse · What happens: feel, not wish, be, convey, find out · To what, where: Queen, poultry yard · 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, little mouse), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 curious	advmod
5	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	11 maiden	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 maiden	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 maiden	obl:unmarked
9	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 maiden	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 turkey	punct
11	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 curious	advcl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 wish	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wish	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 wish	advmod
15	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 maiden	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	19 Queen	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 Queen	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Queen	det
19	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 wish	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 conveyed	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	25 conveyed	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mouse	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mouse	amod
24	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 conveyed	nsubj
25	conveyed	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	conj
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 conveyed	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	31 yard	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 yard	det
29	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 yard	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 poultry	punct
31	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 conveyed	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 find	mark
33	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 conveyed	advcl
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 find	compound:prt
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 like	obj
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 like	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 like	cop
38	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 find	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the Queen			curious property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	not wish	past · do-support					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a	to-infinitive		a Queen			tree rules
4	convey	past	the little mouse	Queen	the poultry yard		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Topic to yard=Recipient
5	find out	to-infinitive	the little mouse not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	Queen			like property	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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