The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 175

That very same night, as soon as the wicked King had gone to bed, the Fairy changed herself into the little mouse, and creeping up on to his pillow nibbled his ear, so that he squealed out quite loudly and turned over on his other side; but that was no good, for the little mouse only set to work and gnawed away at the second ear until it hurt more than the first one.

Who acts: wicked King, Fairy, creeping, head, that, ear · What happens: go, change, creep up, nibble, squeal out, turn over · To what, where: bed, fairy, pillow, ear, other side

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, Fairy, creeping, head), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 night	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 same	advmod
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 night	punct
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 soon	advmod
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 gone	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 gone	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
10	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 King	amod
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gone	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 bed	case
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 changed	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Fairy	det
18	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 changed	nsubj
19	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	advcl
20	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 changed	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	24 mouse	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mouse	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mouse	amod
24	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 changed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 nibbled	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 nibbled	cc
27	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 nibbled	csubj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 creeping	compound:prt
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 pillow	case
30	to	to	ADP	_	29 on	fixed
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 pillow	nmod:poss
32	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 creeping	obl
33	nibbled	nibble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 changed	parataxis
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 ear	nmod:poss
35	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nibbled	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 squealed	punct
37	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	40 squealed	mark
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 so	fixed
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 squealed	nsubj
40	squealed	squeal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 nibbled	conj
41	out	out	ADV	_	40 squealed	advmod
42	quite	quite	ADV	_	43 loudly	advmod
43	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	40 squealed	advmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 turned	cc
45	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 squealed	conj
46	over	over	ADP	_	45 turned	compound:prt
47	on	on	ADP	_	50 side	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 side	nmod:poss
49	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 side	amod
50	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 turned	obl
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 good	punct
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	56 good	cc
53	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	56 good	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 good	cop
55	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	56 good	det
56	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gone	parataxis
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 mouse	punct
58	for	for	ADP	_	61 mouse	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 mouse	det
60	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 mouse	amod
61	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 good	parataxis
62	only	only	ADV	_	63 set	advmod
63	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 mouse	amod
64	to	to	PART	_	65 work	mark
65	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 set	xcomp
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 gnawed	cc
67	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	63 set	conj
68	away	away	ADV	_	67 gnawed	advmod
69	at	at	ADP	_	72 ear	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 ear	det
71	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	72 ear	amod
72	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 gnawed	obl
73	until	until	SCONJ	_	75 hurt	mark
74	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 hurt	nsubj
75	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	advcl
76	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	75 hurt	advmod
77	than	than	ADP	_	80 one	case
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	80 one	det
79	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	80 one	amod
80	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 more	obl
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	the wicked King		bed	night	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	change	past	the Fairy	fairy			into the little mouse result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into mouse=Result
3	creep up	gerund			head's pillow			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pillow=Trajectory
4	nibble	past	creeping	head's ear				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
5	squeal out	past	head				loudly, out property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	turn over	past	head not said here		head's other side			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	that				good property	tree rules
8	work	to-infinitive	that not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	gnaw away	participle	that not said here				at the second ear; away property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at ear=Patient
10	hurt	past	ear					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

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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