The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 78

That night when her baby was fast asleep she packed it into the basket, and wrote on a slip of paper, ‘This unhappy little girl is called Delicia!’

Who acts: baby, Queen, This, paper · What happens: be, pack, write, girl, call, slip · To what, where: dancing, basket, slip, unhappy little girl · 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 (baby, Queen, This, paper), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 packed	obl:unmarked
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 asleep	mark
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 baby	nmod:poss
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asleep	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asleep	cop
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 asleep	advmod
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	advcl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 packed	nsubj
10	packed	pack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 packed	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 basket	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 basket	det
14	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 packed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wrote	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wrote	cc
17	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 packed	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 slip	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 slip	det
20	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wrote	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 paper	case
22	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 slip	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 called	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 called	punct
25	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 girl	nsubj
26	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 girl	amod
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 girl	amod
28	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 called	nsubj:pass
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 called	aux:pass
30	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 wrote	ccomp
31	Delicia	Delicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 called	xcomp
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 Delicia	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Queen's baby				asleep, fast property	tree rules
2	pack	past	Queen	dancing	the basket	night		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into basket=Destination
3	write	past	Queen not said here		a slip of paper			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	girl		This					tree rules
5	call	present · passive		unhappy little girl				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
6	slip		paper					nom slip «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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