The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 70

The Queen when she heard this began to cry, but made no answer, and the old woman after waiting a few minutes asked her what was the matter.

Who acts: Queen, this, old woman · What happens: hear, begin, cry, make, wait, ask · To what, where: answer, Queen, matter · 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, this, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cry	mark
9	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 answer	det
14	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 asked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 asked	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 asked	nsubj
20	after	after	SCONJ	_	21 waiting	mark
21	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 woman	acl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 minutes	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 minutes	amod
24	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 waiting	obl:unmarked
25	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 asked	iobj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 matter	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 matter	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 matter	det
30	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 asked	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	hear	past	the Queen				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	begin	past	this				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	this not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	the Queen not said here	no answer			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product
5	wait	gerund	the old woman not said here			minute	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past	the old woman		Queen		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
7	is a	past		the matter			tree rules

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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