The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 146

She might be a Queen to-morrow if she chose;’ and then she told all that had happened, and the Queen first rejoiced over the thought of Delicia’s beauty, and then wept at the idea of her being a Turkey-maiden.

Who acts: Princess, Queen, that, idea · What happens: be, choose, tell, happen, rejoice, weep · To what, where: Queen, thought, idea, beauty · 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 (Princess, Queen, that, idea), 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	5 Queen	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 Queen	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 Queen	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 chose	nsubj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 morrow	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 to	punct
8	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Queen	nmod
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 chose	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 chose	nsubj
11	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 chose	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 chose	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 told	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 chose	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 happened	det:predet
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 happened	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 happened	aux
21	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 told	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rejoiced	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rejoiced	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Queen	det
25	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 rejoiced	nsubj
26	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 rejoiced	advmod
27	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 chose	conj
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 thought	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 thought	det
30	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rejoiced	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 beauty	case
32	Delicia	Delicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 beauty	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 Delicia	case
34	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 thought	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wept	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wept	cc
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 wept	advmod
38	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 rejoiced	conj
39	at	at	ADP	_	41 idea	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 idea	det
41	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wept	obl
42	of	of	SCONJ	_	48 maiden	mark
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 maiden	nmod:poss
44	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 maiden	cop
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 maiden	det
46	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 maiden	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 Turkey	punct
48	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 idea	acl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 chose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	might	Princess	a Queen			to morrow	tree rules
2	choose	past	a Queen					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	Princess			then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	happen	past · perfect	that					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rejoice	past	the Queen		the thought of Delicia's beauty		first property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	weep	past	the Queen not said here		the idea	then		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	gerund	the idea not said here				maiden property	tree rules
8	think			Delicia's beauty				nom thought «cognition 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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