The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 85

The Queen was immensely astonished when the Mouse began to speak, and still more so when she saw its little sharp nose turn to a beautiful face, and its paws to hands and feet; then it suddenly grew tall, and the Queen recognised the Fairy who had come with the wicked King to visit her.

Who acts: Queen, Mouse, kindness, Fairy · What happens: be, begin, speak, see, grow, recognise · To what, where: little sharp nose turn, Fairy · 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, Mouse, kindness, Fairy), 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 astonished	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	cop
4	immensely	immensely	ADV	_	5 astonished	advmod
5	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 began	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Mouse	det
8	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 speak	mark
11	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saw	cc
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 so	advmod
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 saw	advmod
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 saw	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	conj
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 turn	nmod:poss
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 turn	amod
22	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 turn	amod
23	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turn	compound
24	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 face	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 face	det
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 face	amod
28	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turn	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 paws	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 paws	cc
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 paws	nmod:poss
32	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 saw	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 hands	case
34	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 paws	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 feet	cc
36	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 hands	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 grew	punct
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 grew	advmod
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 grew	nsubj
40	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	41 grew	advmod
41	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	parataxis
42	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 grew	xcomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 recognised	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 recognised	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Queen	det
46	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 recognised	nsubj
47	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 grew	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Fairy	det
49	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 recognised	obj
50	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 come	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 come	aux
52	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 Fairy	acl:relcl
53	with	with	ADP	_	56 King	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 King	det
55	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 King	amod
56	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 come	obl
57	to	to	PART	_	58 visit	mark
58	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 recognised	advcl
59	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 visit	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Queen			astonished, immensely property	tree rules
2	begin	past	the Mouse				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the Mouse not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	past	Queen	kindness's little sharp nose turn		to a beautiful face	tree rules
5	grow	past	kindness		then	suddenly, tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	recognise	past	the Queen	the Fairy			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus
7	come	past · perfect	the Fairy			with the wicked King	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	visit	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here	fairy			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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