The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 96
The Fairy then changed herself back into the form of a mouse, and this delayed her a few seconds, after which she ran nimbly down the straw rope, but only to find when she got to the bottom that the baby had disappeared.
Who acts: Fairy, this · What happens: change back, delay, run, find, get, disappear · To what, where: fairy, form, straw rope, baby, mouse · 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 (Fairy, this), 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 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 changed | advmod |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 changed | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 changed | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 form | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 form | det |
| 9 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mouse | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mouse | det |
| 12 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 form | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 delayed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 delayed | cc |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 delayed | nsubj |
| 16 | delayed | delay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | parataxis |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 delayed | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 seconds | det |
| 19 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 seconds | amod |
| 20 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 delayed | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ran | punct |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 ran | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ran | nsubj |
| 25 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 delayed | conj |
| 26 | nimbly | nimbly | ADV | _ | 25 ran | advmod |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 rope | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rope | det |
| 29 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rope | compound |
| 30 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ran | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 find | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 find | cc |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 35 find | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 find | mark |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 changed | conj |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 got | advmod |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 got | nsubj |
| 38 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 find | ccomp |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 bottom | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 bottom | det |
| 41 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 got | obl |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 disappeared | mark |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 baby | det |
| 44 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 disappeared | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 disappeared | aux |
| 46 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 got | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change back | past | the Fairy | fairy | then | into the form of a mouse result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into form=Result | ||
| 2 | delay | past | this | fairy | second | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent she=Source | |||
| 3 | run | past | fairy | the straw rope | nimbly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down rope=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | the Fairy not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get | past | fairy | to the bottom result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bottom=Result | ||||
| 6 | disappear | past · perfect · passive | the baby | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | form | a mouse | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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