The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 59
She really could not imagine where all the nice things came from.
Who acts: Queen, nice things · What happens: not imagine, come
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, nice things), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 imagine | advmod |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 imagine | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 imagine | advmod |
| 5 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 came | advmod |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 things | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 things | det |
| 9 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 imagine | advcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 came | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine | could | Queen | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | come | past | all nice things | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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