The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 116

The little mouse watched her with the greatest admiration, for she was as beautiful as the spring; and as soon as the wicked Prince was gone, she took the form of an old peasant woman and said to her:

Who acts: little mouse, maiden, wicked Prince · What happens: watch, be, take, say, form · To what, where: maiden, form, old peasant woman · 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 (little mouse, maiden, wicked Prince), 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	3 mouse	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mouse	amod
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watched	nsubj
4	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 watched	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 admiration	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 admiration	det
8	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 admiration	amod
9	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watched	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beautiful	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 beautiful	case
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 beautiful	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 beautiful	cop
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 beautiful	advmod
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 watched	conj
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 spring	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 spring	det
18	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beautiful	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 gone	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gone	cc
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 soon	advmod
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 gone	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 gone	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Prince	det
25	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Prince	amod
26	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 gone	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 gone	cop
28	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 watched	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	nsubj
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 gone	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 form	det
33	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 woman	case
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 woman	det
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 woman	amod
37	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 woman	amod
38	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 form	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 said	cc
40	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 took	conj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 her	case
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 said	obl
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	the little mouse	maiden			with the greatest admiration	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	is	past	maiden			spring	beautiful property	tree rules
3	is	past	the wicked Prince				gone, soon property	tree rules
4	take	past	maiden	the form of a old peasant woman				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	maiden not said here		maiden			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
6	form			a old peasant woman				nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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