The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 15
When he was lost to sight the Queen could do nothing but weep, and wring her hands, and cry.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: lose, do, cry · To what, where: Fie, nothing
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), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 lost | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux:pass |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 do | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sight | mark |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 weep | cc |
| 13 | weep | weep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nothing | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wring | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wring | cc |
| 16 | wring | wring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wring | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cry | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cry | cc |
| 21 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 do | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | Fie | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | could | the Queen | nothing | wring Queen's hands obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | infinitive | the Queen not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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