The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 119
‘Yet they wish me to leave them to become a miserable Queen! what is your advice upon the matter?’
Who acts: eyes, miserable Queen · What happens: wish, leave, become, be · To what, where: me, eyes, advice
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 (eyes, miserable Queen), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 2 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 wish | cc |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 leave | mark |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wish | xcomp |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leave | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 become | mark |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 leave | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 12 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Queen | amod |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 advice | nsubj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 Queen | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 advice | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 advice | cop |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 advice | nmod:poss |
| 18 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 become | ccomp |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 matter | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 matter | det |
| 21 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 advice | nmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | eyes = eye | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | eyes = eye not said here | eyes = eye | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | to-infinitive | eyes = eye not said here | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | a miserable Queen | your advice | upon the matter | 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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