The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 58

By the time the straws were all plaited the little mouse had dragged in more and more, until the Queen had plenty to make her basket, and she worked at it day and night, while the little mouse danced for her amusement; and at dinner and supper time the Queen gave it the three peas and the bit of black bread, and always found something good in the dish in their place.

Who acts: Queen, plenty, little mouse · What happens: plait, drag, have, make, work, dance · To what, where: straws, little mouse, plenty, basket, dinner, something

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, plenty, 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plaited	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 straws	det
5	straws	straw	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 plaited	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 plaited	aux:pass
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 plaited	advmod
8	plaited	plait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mouse	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mouse	amod
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dragged	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dragged	aux
13	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 plaited	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	13 dragged	obl
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 in	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 more	cc
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 more	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
19	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Queen	det
21	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dragged	parataxis
23	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 had	xcomp
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 basket	nmod:poss
27	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 worked	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 worked	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 worked	nsubj
31	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 had	conj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 worked	obl
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 worked	obl:unmarked
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 night	cc
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 day	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 danced	punct
38	while	while	SCONJ	_	42 danced	mark
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 mouse	det
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 mouse	amod
41	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 danced	nsubj
42	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 worked	conj
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 amusement	case
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 amusement	nmod:poss
45	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 danced	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 gave	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 gave	cc
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 dinner	case
49	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 gave	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 time	cc
51	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 time	compound
52	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 dinner	conj
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 Queen	det
54	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 gave	nsubj
55	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 plaited	parataxis
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 gave	obj
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 peas	det
58	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	59 peas	nummod
59	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 gave	obj
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 bit	cc
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 bit	det
62	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 peas	conj
63	of	of	ADP	_	65 bread	case
64	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 bread	amod
65	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 bit	nmod
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 found	punct
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 found	cc
68	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	69 found	advmod
69	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 gave	conj
70	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	69 found	obj
71	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 something	amod
72	in	in	ADP	_	74 dish	case
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 dish	det
74	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 found	obl
75	in	in	ADP	_	77 place	case
76	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	77 place	nmod:poss
77	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 dish	nmod
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 plaited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plait	past · passive		the straws		time	all property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	drag	past · perfect · passive		the little mouse				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	have	past	the Queen	plenty				tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	plenty not said here	Queen's basket				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset basket=Product
5	work	past	Queen			day	at basket	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
6	dance	past	the little mouse				for Queen's amusement	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	give	past	the Queen	basket	dinner and supper time			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Recipient pea=Theme at dinner=Asset
8	find	past	the Queen not said here	something	the dish in straws's place		always property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
9	amuse		Queen					nom amusement «feeling transitive»: poss=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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