The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 24
Then her ladies put the little Princess into her arms, and covered her up, head and all, in the bedclothes, and ran for their lives, and the poor Queen lay there shaking, and hoping she would not be found.
Who acts: ladies, poor Queen · What happens: put, cover up, run, lie, shake, hope · To what, where: little Princess, arms, Queen · 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 (ladies, poor 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 put | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Princess | amod |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 arms | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 covered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 covered | cc |
| 13 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 covered | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 covered | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 head | punct |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 covered | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 all | cc |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 head | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bedclothes | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 bedclothes | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bedclothes | det |
| 23 | bedclothes | bedclothes | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 covered | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ran | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ran | cc |
| 26 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 lives | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 lives | nmod:poss |
| 29 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ran | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 lay | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 lay | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Queen | det |
| 33 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Queen | amod |
| 34 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 lay | nsubj |
| 35 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 36 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 lay | advmod |
| 37 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 lay | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 hoping | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 hoping | cc |
| 40 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 shaking | conj |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 found | nsubj |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 found | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 found | advmod |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 found | aux:pass |
| 45 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 hoping | ccomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Queen's ladies | the little Princess | Queen's arms | then | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Goal | ||
| 2 | cover up | past | Queen's ladies not said here | Queen | head obl | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination | |||
| 3 | run | past | Queen's ladies not said here | for ladies's lives | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | lie | past | the poor Queen | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | shake | gerund | the poor Queen not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | hope | gerund | the poor Queen not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not find | would · passive | Queen | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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