The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 27

When he got there he declared that he would have the Queen and the little Princess hanged on the nearest tree; but his courtiers said that seemed a pity, for when the baby grew up she would be a very nice wife for the King’s only son.

Who acts: head, courtiers, baby, Queen · What happens: get, declare, have, hange, say, seem · To what, where: Queen, little Princess, nearest tree, pity, nice wife · 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 (head, courtiers, baby, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 declared	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 declared	nsubj
6	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 have	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 declared	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Queen	det
12	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Princess	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Princess	amod
16	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Queen	conj
17	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 Princess	acl
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 tree	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tree	det
20	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 tree	amod
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hanged	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 courtiers	nmod:poss
25	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 declared	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 seemed	mark
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 said	ccomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 pity	det
30	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seemed	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 grew	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 grew	mark
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 grew	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 baby	det
35	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 grew	nsubj
36	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 said	conj
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 grew	compound:prt
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 wife	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 wife	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 wife	cop
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 wife	det
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 nice	advmod
43	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 wife	amod
44	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 grew	obl
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 King	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 King	det
47	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 wife	nmod
48	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 wife	conj
49	only	only	ADV	_	50 son	advmod
50	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 ’s	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	head		there		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	declare speech: other	past	head				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	would	head	the Queen and the little Princess			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient
4	hange	participle		the little Princess not said here	the nearest tree		tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	head's courtiers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	seem	past		a pity			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pity=Attribute
7	grow up	past	the baby				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is a	would	Queen	a nice wife		for the King	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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