The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 71

‘Why,’ said the Queen, ‘there is only one mouse in this garret, and that is such a dear, pretty little thing that I cannot bear to think of its being killed.’

Who acts: Queen, one mouse, that, I · What happens: say, be, not bear, think, kill · To what, where: garret, dear pretty little thing, mouse · 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, one mouse, that, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Queen	det
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 is	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 is	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 is	expl
11	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 mouse	nummod
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 is	nsubj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 garret	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 garret	det
17	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 is	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thing	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 thing	cc
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 thing	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 thing	cop
22	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	28 thing	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 thing	det
24	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 thing	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dear	punct
26	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 thing	amod
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 thing	amod
28	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 bear	obj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 bear	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 bear	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 bear	advmod
33	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 thing	acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 think	mark
35	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 bear	xcomp
36	of	of	SCONJ	_	39 killed	mark
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 killed	nsubj:pass
38	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 killed	aux:pass
39	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 think	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	be	present	one mouse		this garret; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garret=Location
3	is a	present	that	such dear pretty little thing		tree rules
4	not bear	can	I	such dear pretty little thing		tree rules
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	kill	gerund · passive		mouse		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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