The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 183
But when the Queen rushed in, and kissed her twenty times in a minute, and laughed, and cried, and told Delicia all her history, the Princess was wild with delight.
Who acts: Queen, Princess · What happens: rush in, kiss, laugh, cry, tell, be · To what, where: Queen, history, Delicia · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Princess), 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 | _ | 9 kissed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 rushed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rushed | nsubj |
| 5 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kissed | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 rushed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rushed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kissed | cc |
| 9 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kissed | obj |
| 11 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 times | nummod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kissed | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 minute | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 minute | det |
| 15 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kissed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 laughed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 laughed | cc |
| 18 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kissed | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cried | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cried | cc |
| 21 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 laughed | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 told | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 told | cc |
| 24 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 laughed | conj |
| 25 | Delicia | Delicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 told | iobj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 history | det:predet |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 history | nmod:poss |
| 28 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 told | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wild | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Princess | det |
| 31 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 wild | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 wild | cop |
| 33 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 told | ccomp |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 delight | case |
| 35 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wild | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush in | past | the Queen | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kiss | past | Queen | minute; time | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | Queen's history | Delicia | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent delicia=Recipient history=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the Princess | with delight; wild property | 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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