The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 48

The next morning came the gaoler with the Queen’s allowance of three peas, which he brought in upon a large dish to make them look smaller; but as soon as he set it down the little mouse came and ate up all three, so that when the Queen wanted her dinner there was nothing left for her.

Who acts: next morning, gaoler, dishes, Queen, nothing · What happens: come, bring in, make, look, set down, eat up · To what, where: three peas, dishes, allowance, three, dinner

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 (next morning, gaoler, dishes, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gaoler	det
6	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 allowance	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Queen	det
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 allowance	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Queen	case
11	allowance	allowance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gaoler	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 peas	case
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 peas	nummod
14	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 allowance	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 brought	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 brought	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 brought	nsubj
18	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 peas	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 brought	advmod
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 dish	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dish	det
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dish	amod
23	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brought	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 brought	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 make	xcomp
28	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 look	xcomp
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 came	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 came	cc
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 soon	advmod
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 came	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 set	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 set	nsubj
35	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 soon	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 set	obj
37	down	down	ADP	_	35 set	compound:prt
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 mouse	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 mouse	amod
40	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 set	obj
41	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 ate	cc
43	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 came	conj
44	up	up	ADP	_	43 ate	compound:prt
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 three	det
46	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 ate	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 wanted	punct
48	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	53 wanted	mark
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 so	fixed
50	when	when	SCONJ	_	53 wanted	mark
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Queen	det
52	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 wanted	nsubj
53	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 came	conj
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 dinner	nmod:poss
55	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 wanted	obj
56	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	57 was	expl
57	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 wanted	parataxis
58	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	57 was	nsubj
59	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 nothing	acl
60	for	for	ADP	_	61 her	case
61	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 left	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the next morning				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring in	past	gaoler	three peas		upon a large dish	vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Asset
3	make	to-infinitive	gaoler not said here	dishes = dish			tree rules
4	look	infinitive	dishes = dish not said here			small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	set down	past	gaoler	allowance			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme mouse=Destination
6	come	past				soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	eat up	past		all three			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient
8	want	past	the Queen	Queen's dinner			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dinner=Theme
9	be	past	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	leave	participle				for Queen	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for she=Recipient
11	allowance		the Queen	three peas			nom allowance «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=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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