The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 124

‘A Fairy called Cancaline is the cause of my being here,’ answered she, ‘for while I lived with her I got nothing but blows and harsh words, until at last I could bear it no longer, and ran away from her without knowing where I was going, and as I came through a wood the wicked Prince met me, and offered to give me charge of the poultry-yard.

Who acts: Fairy, cause, I, wicked Prince · What happens: call, be, answer, live, get, bear · To what, where: Fairy, cause, nothing, wood, me, charge · 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 (Fairy, cause, I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 cause	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
3	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cause	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Fairy	acl
5	Cancaline	Cancaline	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cause	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cause	det
8	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answered	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 here	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 here	nmod:poss
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 here	cop
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 cause	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cause	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 cause	punct
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 answered	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lived	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 lived	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 lived	mark
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 lived	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 lived	nsubj
22	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 answered	conj
23	with	with	SCONJ	_	26 got	mark
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 got	nmod:poss
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 got	nsubj
26	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lived	advcl
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 got	obj
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 blows	cc
29	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 nothing	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 words	cc
31	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 words	amod
32	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 nothing	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 last	punct
34	until	until	ADP	_	36 last	case
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 last	case
36	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 got	conj
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 bear	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 bear	aux
39	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 last	ccomp
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 bear	obj
41	no	no	ADV	_	42 longer	advmod
42	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 bear	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 ran	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 ran	cc
45	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 answered	conj
46	away	away	ADV	_	45 ran	advmod
47	from	from	ADP	_	48 her	case
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 ran	obj
49	without	without	SCONJ	_	50 knowing	mark
50	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 ran	advcl
51	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	54 going	advmod
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 going	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 going	aux
54	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 knowing	ccomp
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 came	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 came	cc
57	as	as	SCONJ	_	59 came	mark
58	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 came	nsubj
59	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 answered	parataxis
60	through	through	ADP	_	62 wood	case
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 wood	det
62	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 came	obl
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 Prince	det
64	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 Prince	amod
65	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	66 met	nsubj
66	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 wood	acl:relcl
67	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	66 met	obj
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 offered	punct
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 offered	cc
70	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 came	conj
71	to	to	PART	_	72 give	mark
72	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	70 offered	xcomp
73	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	72 give	iobj
74	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 give	obj
75	of	of	ADP	_	79 yard	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	79 yard	det
77	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 yard	compound
78	-	-	PUNCT	_	77 poultry	punct
79	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 charge	nmod
80	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	participle		a Fairy not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	a Fairy	the cause				tree rules
3	is	gerund					here property	tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	past	the cause		fairy			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
5	live	past	I					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	get	past	I	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
7	bear	could	I	cause			long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	run away	past	the cause not said here	fairy			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Agent
9	know	gerund	the cause not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	go	past · progressive	I					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	come	past	I			a wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_Location
12	meet	past	the wicked Prince	me				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
13	offer	participle	I not said here					tree rules
14	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	charge of the poultry yard	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient charge=Theme
15	charge			the poultry yard				nom charge «act 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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