The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 112

She found the turkey-maiden sitting upon a big stone, barefooted, and miserably dressed in an old, coarse linen gown and cap; the ground at her feet was all strewn with robes of gold and silver, ribbons and laces, diamonds and pearls, over which the turkeys were stalking to and fro, while the King’s ugly, disagreeable son stood opposite her, declaring angrily that if she would not marry him she should be killed.

Who acts: Queen, ground, turkeys, ugly disagreeable son · What happens: find, sit, dress, be, stalk, fro · To what, where: big stone, old coarse linen gown, son, Queen

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, ground, turkeys, ugly disagreeable son), 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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maiden	det
4	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 maiden	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 turkey	punct
6	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	ccomp
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 maiden	acl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 stone	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stone	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stone	amod
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 barefooted	punct
13	barefooted	barefooted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stone	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dressed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dressed	cc
16	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	17 dressed	advmod
17	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 barefooted	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	24 gown	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 gown	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 gown	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 old	punct
22	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 gown	amod
23	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gown	compound
24	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dressed	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cap	cc
26	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gown	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 strewn	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ground	det
29	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 strewn	nsubj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 feet	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 feet	nmod:poss
32	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ground	nmod
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 strewn	cop
34	all	all	ADV	_	35 strewn	advmod
35	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 robes	case
37	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 strewn	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 gold	case
39	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 robes	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 silver	cc
41	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 gold	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 ribbons	punct
43	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 robes	conj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 laces	cc
45	laces	lace	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 robes	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 diamonds	punct
47	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 robes	conj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 pearls	cc
49	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 robes	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 stalking	punct
51	over	over	ADP	_	52 which	case
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 stalking	obl
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 turkeys	det
54	turkeys	turkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 stalking	nsubj
55	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 stalking	aux
56	stalking	stalk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 found	advcl
57	to	to	ADP	_	56 stalking	fixed
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 fro	cc
59	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 stalking	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 stood	punct
61	while	while	SCONJ	_	69 stood	mark
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 King	det
63	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 son	nmod:poss
64	’s	's	PART	_	63 King	case
65	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 son	amod
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 ugly	punct
67	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 son	amod
68	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 stood	nsubj
69	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
70	opposite	opposite	ADP	_	71 her	case
71	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 stood	obl
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 declaring	punct
73	declaring	declare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	69 stood	advcl
74	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	73 declaring	advmod
75	that	that	SCONJ	_	85 killed	mark
76	if	if	SCONJ	_	80 marry	mark
77	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	80 marry	nsubj
78	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	80 marry	aux
79	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	80 marry	advmod
80	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	85 killed	advcl
81	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	80 marry	obj
82	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	85 killed	nsubj:pass
83	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	85 killed	aux
84	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	85 killed	aux:pass
85	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	73 declaring	advcl
86	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	Queen				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	sit	gerund			a big stone		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon stone=Location
3	dress	participle			a old coarse linen gown and cap	miserably property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the ground at Queen's feet			with robes of gold and silver and ribbons and laces and diamonds and pearls; all, strewn property	tree rules
5	stalk	past · progressive	the turkeys				vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent over which=Location
6	fro	infinitive	the turkeys not said here				tree rules
7	stand	past	the King's ugly disagreeable son			opposite Queen	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent opposite she=Location
8	declare speech: other	gerund	the King's ugly disagreeable son not said here			angrily property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
9	not marry a condition, not said to happen	would	Queen	son			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
10	kill	should · passive		Queen			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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