The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 45

But the mouse ran hither and thither, and danced and capered so prettily, that at last the Queen gave it her last pea, which she was keeping for her supper, saying: ‘Here, little one, eat it up; I have nothing better to offer you, but I give this willingly in return for the amusement I have had from you.’

Who acts: mouse, Queen, last pea, I · What happens: run, dance, caper, give, keep, say · To what, where: that, last, mouse, nothing, you, this · 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 (mouse, Queen, last pea, I), 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	_	4 ran	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hither	hither	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thither	cc
7	thither	thither	ADV	_	5 hither	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 danced	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 danced	cc
10	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 capered	cc
12	capered	caper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 danced	conj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 prettily	advmod
14	prettily	prettily	ADV	_	12 capered	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 that	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 ran	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ran	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Queen	det
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 gave	nsubj
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	obj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 pea	nmod:poss
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pea	amod
25	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 keeping	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 keeping	nsubj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 keeping	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 keeping	aux
30	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 pea	parataxis
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 supper	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 supper	nmod:poss
33	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 keeping	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 saying	punct
35	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 keeping	conj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 Here	punct
37	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 Here	punct
38	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 saying	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 one	punct
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 one	amod
41	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Here	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 eat	punct
43	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 saying	ccomp
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 eat	obj
45	up	up	ADP	_	43 eat	compound:prt
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 have	punct
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 have	nsubj
48	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	parataxis
49	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	48 have	obj
50	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	49 nothing	amod
51	to	to	PART	_	52 offer	mark
52	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 nothing	acl
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 offer	iobj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 give	punct
55	but	but	CCONJ	_	57 give	cc
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 give	nsubj
57	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 have	conj
58	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	57 give	obj
59	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	57 give	advmod
60	in	in	ADP	_	61 return	case
61	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 give	obl
62	for	for	ADP	_	64 amusement	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 amusement	det
64	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 return	nmod
65	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	67 had	nsubj
66	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 had	aux
67	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	64 amusement	acl:relcl
68	from	from	ADP	_	69 you	case
69	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	67 had	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct
71	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	the mouse	that		last	hither property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory
2	dance	past	the mouse not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	caper	past	the mouse not said here				prettily property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	past	the Queen	mouse				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient pea=Theme
5	keep	past · progressive	Queen's last pea				for Queen's supper	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	gerund	Queen's last pea not said here			here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	eat up	infinitive		mouse				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	have	present	I	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
9	offer	to-infinitive	I not said here	nothing not said here	you			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme
10	give	present	I	this		return for the amusement	willingly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
11	have	present · perfect	I	the amusement not said here			from you	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amusement=Patient

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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