The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 9
‘Sire,’ she said, ‘let us collect all our riches and run away as far as ever we can, to the other side of the world.’
Who acts: Queen, us · What happens: say, let, collect, run away · To what, where: us, riches · 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, us), 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 | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 riches | det:predet |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 riches | nmod:poss |
| 14 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 collect | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 run | cc |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 run | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 far | advmod |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 run | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 can | mark |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 can | advmod |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 can | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 far | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 side | punct |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 side | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 side | amod |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 side | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | us | to the other side of the world | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | collect | infinitive | us not said here | our riches | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run away | present | away, far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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