The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 52

But when she glanced at the dish again it was covered with all sorts of nice things to eat, and the Queen made a very good dinner, and was gayer than usual over it.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: glance, cover, eat, make, be, sort · To what, where: mouse, good dinner, nice things

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 covered	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 glanced	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 glanced	nsubj
4	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 covered	advcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 dish	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dish	det
7	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glanced	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 glanced	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 covered	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 covered	aux:pass
11	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 sorts	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 sorts	det
14	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 covered	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 things	case
16	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 things	amod
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sorts	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 things	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Queen	det
23	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 made	nsubj
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 covered	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dinner	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 good	advmod
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dinner	amod
28	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gayer	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gayer	cc
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 gayer	cop
32	gayer	gay	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 made	conj
33	than	than	ADP	_	34 usual	case
34	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gayer	obl
35	over	over	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gayer	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	glance	past	Queen		again	at the dish	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dish=Theme
2	cover	past · passive		mouse		with all sorts of nice things	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with sort=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	the Queen	a good dinner			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Product
5	is	past	the Queen not said here			than usual; over mouse; gay property	tree rules
6	sort			nice things			nom sort «cognition transitive»: 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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