The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 77

As to the Queen, she was so disappointed that, in spite of finding a better dinner than usual, and seeing the little mouse dancing in its merriest mood, she could do nothing but cry.

Who acts: Queen, spite · What happens: be, find, see, do · To what, where: better dinner, little mouse dancing, merriest mood, nothing

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, spite), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 Queen	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 disappointed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Queen	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 disappointed	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 disappointed	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 disappointed	advmod
9	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 do	mark
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spite	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 spite	case
13	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 do	nsubj
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 finding	mark
15	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 spite	acl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dinner	det
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 dinner	amod
18	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 finding	obj
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 usual	case
20	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dinner	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 do	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 do	cc
23	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 do	csubj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dancing	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dancing	amod
26	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dancing	compound
27	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seeing	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 mood	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mood	nmod:poss
30	merriest	merry	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 mood	amod
31	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dancing	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seeing	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 do	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 do	aux
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 disappointed	advcl
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	35 do	obj
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 cry	cc
38	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 nothing	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 disappointed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Queen			as the Queen; disappointed property	tree rules
2	find	gerund	spite not said here	a better dinner		than usual	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Topic
3	see	gerund		the little mouse dancing	spite's merriest mood		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dancing=Stimulus
4	do	could	spite	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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