The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 60

At last one day when the basket was finished, the Queen was looking out of the window to see how long a cord she must make to lower it to the bottom of the tower, when she noticed a little old woman who was leaning upon her stick and looking up at her.

Who acts: Queen, cord, little old woman · What happens: finish, look out, see, make, lower, notice · To what, where: basket, window, bottom, little old woman, stick · 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, cord, little old woman), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	compound
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looking	obl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 finished	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 basket	det
7	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 finished	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 finished	aux:pass
9	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 day	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Queen	det
12	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 looking	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 looking	aux
14	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 window	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 window	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 window	det
18	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looking	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 looking	advcl
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 long	advmod
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 make	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cord	det
24	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	nsubj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 make	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 make	aux
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 see	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 lower	mark
29	lower	lower	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 make	xcomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lower	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 bottom	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bottom	det
33	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lower	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 tower	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tower	det
36	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bottom	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 noticed	punct
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 noticed	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 noticed	nsubj
40	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 looking	conj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 woman	det
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 woman	amod
43	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 woman	amod
44	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 noticed	obj
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 leaning	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 leaning	aux
47	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 woman	acl:relcl
48	upon	upon	ADP	_	50 stick	case
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 stick	nmod:poss
50	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 leaning	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 looking	cc
52	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 leaning	conj
53	up	up	ADP	_	52 looking	compound:prt
54	at	at	ADP	_	55 her	case
55	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 looking	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	past · passive		the basket				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
2	look out	past · progressive	the Queen	the window		day		tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	make	must	a cord				long property	tree rules
5	lower	to-infinitive	a cord not said here	basket	the bottom of the tower			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to bottom=Destination
6	notice	past	Queen	a little old woman				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
7	lean	past · progressive	a little old woman		Queen's stick			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon stick=Location
8	look up	gerund	a little old woman not said here				at Queen	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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