The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 55
As she spoke she saw the little mouse playing in a corner with some long straws.
Who acts: Queen, little mouse · What happens: speak, see, play · To what, where: little mouse, corner · 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 mouse), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mouse | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mouse | amod |
| 8 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 mouse | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 corner | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 corner | det |
| 12 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 playing | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 straws | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 straws | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 straws | amod |
| 16 | straws | straw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 corner | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Queen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Queen | the little mouse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | play | gerund | the little mouse not said here | a corner with some long straws | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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