The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 46

She had hardly spoken when she saw upon the table a delicious little roast partridge, and two dishes of preserved fruit.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: speak, see, preserve · To what, where: two dishes, delicious little roast partridge · 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 (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoken	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 spoken	advmod
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	ccomp
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 table	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 partridge	det
12	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 partridge	amod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 partridge	amod
14	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 partridge	compound
15	partridge	partridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dishes	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dishes	cc
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 dishes	nummod
19	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spoken	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 fruit	case
21	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 fruit	amod
22	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dishes	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect	Queen	two dishes of preserved fruit	hardly property	tree rules
2	see	past	Queen	a delicious little roast partridge	upon the table	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer partridge=Stimulus
3	preserve	participle				vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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