The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 165

But the wicked King only laughed and mocked at her, and cried: ‘Well, little fright, little toad! why don’t you love my son, who is far too handsome and too good for you?

Who acts: wicked King, you, son · What happens: laugh, mock, cry, not love, be · To what, where: little fright, son

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 (wicked King, you, son), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 laughed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 King	amod
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 laughed	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 laughed	advmod
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mocked	cc
8	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mocked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cried	cc
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 fright	punct
16	Well	well	INTJ	_	19 fright	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Well	punct
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fright	amod
19	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 toad	punct
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 toad	amod
22	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fright	conj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 fright	punct
24	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	28 love	advmod
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 love	aux
26	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 love	advmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 love	nsubj
28	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fright	parataxis
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 son	nmod:poss
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 love	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 handsome	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 handsome	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 handsome	cop
34	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 handsome	advmod
35	too	too	ADV	_	36 handsome	advmod
36	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 son	acl:relcl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 good	cc
38	too	too	ADV	_	39 good	advmod
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 handsome	conj
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 you	case
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 good	obl
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the wicked King			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mock	past	the wicked King not said here		at Delicia	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	past	the wicked King not said here	little fright and little toad		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not love	present · do-support	you	my son		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
5	is	present	my son		far, handsome property	tree rules
6	be		my son not said here		for you	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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