The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 29
Then he sent for a fairy who lived near his kingdom, and after receiving her with more politeness than he generally showed, and entertaining her at a sumptuous feast, he took her up to see the Queen.
Who acts: baby, fairy · What happens: send, live, receive, show, entertain, take up · To what, where: kingdom, Queen, sumptuous feast
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 (baby, fairy), 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 | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 fairy | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fairy | det |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 kingdom | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 11 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 showed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 showed | cc |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 receiving | mark |
| 15 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 showed | advcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 receiving | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 politeness | case |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 politeness | amod |
| 19 | politeness | politeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 receiving | obl |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 23 showed | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 showed | nsubj |
| 22 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 23 showed | advmod |
| 23 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 entertaining | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 entertaining | cc |
| 26 | entertaining | entertain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 showed | advcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 entertaining | obj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 feast | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 feast | det |
| 30 | sumptuous | sumptuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 feast | amod |
| 31 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 entertaining | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 took | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 took | nsubj |
| 34 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 took | obj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 took | compound:prt |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 see | mark |
| 38 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 took | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Queen | det |
| 40 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 see | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | baby | then | for a fairy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | live | past | a fairy | baby's kingdom | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near kingdom=Location | ||||
| 3 | receive | gerund | baby not said here | Queen | with more politeness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 4 | show | past | baby | generally property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | entertain | gerund | baby not said here | Queen | a sumptuous feast | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | take up | past | baby | Queen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | baby not said here | the Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus |
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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