The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 17
If the King is killed, what will become of me and of my little daughter?’ and she was so sorrowful that she could neither eat nor sleep.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: kill, become, be, eat · To what, where: King
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 killed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux:pass |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 become | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 become | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 become | aux |
| 9 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 become | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 daughter | cc |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 daughter | amod |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 me | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 daughter | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 daughter | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sorrowful | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sorrowful | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sorrowful | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 sorrowful | advmod |
| 23 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 become | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 eat | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 eat | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 eat | aux |
| 27 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 28 eat | advmod |
| 28 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sorrowful | advcl |
| 29 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 30 sleep | cc |
| 30 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 eat | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | the King | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | become | future | of me | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Queen | sorrowful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | could | Queen | neither property | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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