The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 28

The King was rather pleased with this idea, and shut the Queen up in the highest room of a tall tower, which was very tiny, and miserably furnished with a table and a very hard bed upon the floor.

Who acts: King, tall tower · What happens: be, shut up, furnish · To what, where: Queen, highest room

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, tall tower), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pleased	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	cop
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 pleased	advmod
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 idea	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 idea	det
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pleased	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shut	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shut	cc
11	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Queen	det
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 shut	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	11 shut	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 room	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 room	det
17	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 room	amod
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shut	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 tower	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tower	det
21	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tower	amod
22	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 room	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tiny	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 tiny	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tiny	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 tiny	advmod
27	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tower	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 furnished	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 furnished	cc
30	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	31 furnished	advmod
31	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 tiny	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 table	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 table	det
34	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 furnished	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 bed	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bed	det
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 hard	advmod
38	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 bed	amod
39	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 table	conj
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 floor	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 floor	det
42	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 table	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King			with this idea; pleased property	tree rules
2	shut up	past	the King not said here	the Queen	the highest room of a tall tower		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient
3	is	past	a tall tower			tiny property	tree rules
4	furnish	participle	a tall tower not said here			with a table upon the floor and a hard bed; miserably property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with table=Theme

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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