The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 53

But afterwards as she sat at her spinning-wheel she began to consider what would happen if the little Princess did not grow up pretty enough to please the King, and she said to herself:

Who acts: Queen, little Princess · What happens: sit, begin, consider, happen, not grow up, please · To what, where: spinning wheel, King, Queen · 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, little Princess), 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	_	5 sat	cc
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 sat	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 wheel	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wheel	nmod:poss
8	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wheel	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 spinning	punct
10	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 consider	mark
14	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happen	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 happen	aux
17	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 consider	ccomp
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 grow	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Princess	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Princess	amod
21	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 grow	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 grow	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 grow	advmod
24	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 happen	advcl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 grow	compound:prt
26	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	27 enough	advmod
27	enough	enough	ADV	_	24 grow	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 please	mark
29	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 grow	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 King	det
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 please	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 said	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 herself	case
37	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 said	obl
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Queen			Queen's spinning wheel	afterwards property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at wheel=Location
2	begin	past	Queen					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	consider	to-infinitive	Queen not said here					vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	happen	would						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not grow up a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	the little Princess				enough property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	please	to-infinitive	the little Princess not said here	the King				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer
7	say speech: assert	past	Queen		Queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient

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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