The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 176

Then the King cried ‘Murder!’ and ‘Thieves!’ and all his guards ran to see what was the matter, but they could find nothing and nobody, for the little mouse had run off to the Prince’s room and was serving him in exactly the same way.

Who acts: King, guards · What happens: cry, run, see, find, run off, serve · To what, where: Murder, nothing, head, same way

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 (King, guards), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 cried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Murder	punct
6	Murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Murder	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 Murder	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Thieves	cc
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 Thieves	punct
11	Thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Murder	conj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Murder	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 Murder	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ran	cc
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 guards	det:predet
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 guards	nmod:poss
17	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ran	nsubj
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ran	xcomp
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 see	obj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 matter	det
24	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 was	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 find	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 find	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 find	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 find	aux
29	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cried	conj
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 find	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 nobody	cc
32	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 nothing	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 run	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	37 mouse	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 mouse	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 mouse	amod
37	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 run	obl
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 run	aux
39	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 find	conj
40	off	off	ADP	_	39 run	compound:prt
41	to	to	ADP	_	45 room	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Prince	det
43	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 room	nmod:poss
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 Prince	case
45	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 run	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 serving	cc
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 serving	aux
48	serving	serve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 run	conj
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 serving	obj
50	in	in	ADP	_	54 way	case
51	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	54 way	advmod
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 way	det
53	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 way	amod
54	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 serving	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the King	Murder and Thieves		then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murder=Topic
2	run	past	head's guards					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	see	to-infinitive	head's guards not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	find	could	King	nothing				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
5	run off	past · perfect	King not said here				for the little mouse; to the Prince's room result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to room=Result
6	serve	past · progressive	King not said here	head	the same way			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in way=Location

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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