The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 79

This she pinned to its robe, and then very sadly she was shutting the basket, when in sprang the little mouse and sat on the baby’s pillow.

Who acts: This, Queen · What happens: pin, shut, spring, sit · To what, where: basket, little mouse, pillow

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 (This, Queen), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 pinned	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pinned	nsubj
3	pinned	pin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 robe	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 robe	nmod:poss
6	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pinned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shutting	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shutting	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 shutting	advmod
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 sadly	advmod
11	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	14 shutting	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shutting	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shutting	aux
14	shutting	shut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 pinned	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 basket	det
16	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shutting	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sprang	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 sprang	advmod
19	in	in	SCONJ	_	20 sprang	mark
20	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pinned	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mouse	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mouse	amod
23	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sprang	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sat	cc
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sprang	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	30 pillow	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 baby	det
28	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pillow	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 baby	case
30	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pinned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pin	past	This				to dancing's robe	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to robe=Co-Patient
2	shut	past · progressive	Queen	the basket		then	sadly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent basket=Patient
3	spring	past		the little mouse				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mouse=Theme
4	sit	past			the baby's pillow			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pillow=Location

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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