--- title: She found the turkey-maiden sitting upon a big stone, barefooted, an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She found the turkey-maiden sitting upon a big stone, barefooted, and miserably dressed in an old, coarse linen gown and cap; the ground at her feet was all strewn with robes of gold and silver, ribbons and laces, diamonds and pearls, over which the turkeys were stalking to and fro, while the King’s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/112/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/) / 112 # The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 112 She found the turkey-maiden sitting upon a big stone, barefooted, and miserably dressed in an old, coarse linen gown and cap; the ground at her feet was all strewn with robes of gold and silver, ribbons and laces, diamonds and pearls, over which the turkeys were stalking to and fro, while the King’s ugly, disagreeable son stood opposite her, declaring angrily that if she would not marry him she should be killed. **Who acts:** Queen, ground, turkeys, ugly disagreeable son · **What happens:** find, sit, dress, be, stalk, fro · **To what, where:** big stone, old coarse linen gown, son, Queen 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, ground, turkeys, ugly disagreeable son), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:22:112 # text = She found the turkey-maiden sitting upon a big stone, barefooted, and miserably dressed in an old, coarse linen gown and cap; the ground at her feet was all strewn with robes of gold and silver, ribbons and laces, diamonds and pearls, over which the turkeys were stalking to and fro, while the King’s ugly, disagreeable son stood opposite her, declaring angrily that if she would not marry him she should be killed. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 turkey turkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 maiden maiden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 7 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 upon upon ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 barefooted barefooted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 miserably miserably ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 coarse coarse ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 linen linen NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 gown gown NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 all all ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 strewn strewn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 robes robe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 ribbons ribbon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 laces lace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 diamonds diamond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 pearls pearl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 51 over over ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 56 obl _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 turkeys turkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 nsubj _ _ 55 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 56 stalking stalk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 advcl _ _ 57 to to ADP IN _ 56 fixed _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 59 fro fro VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 61 while while SCONJ IN _ 69 mark _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 68 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ’s 's PART POS _ 63 case _ _ 65 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 67 disagreeable disagreeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 amod _ _ 68 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 nsubj _ _ 69 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 70 opposite opposite ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 71 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 69 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 72 , , PUNCT , _ 73 punct _ _ 73 declaring declare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 69 advcl _ _ 74 angrily angrily ADV RB _ 73 advmod _ _ 75 that that SCONJ IN _ 85 mark _ _ 76 if if SCONJ IN _ 80 mark _ _ 77 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 80 nsubj _ _ 78 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 80 aux _ _ 79 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 80 advmod _ _ 80 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 85 advcl _ _ 81 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 80 obj _ _ 82 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 85 nsubj:pass _ _ 83 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 85 aux _ _ 84 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 85 aux:pass _ _ 85 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 73 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 86 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | Queen | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sit** | gerund | | | | a big stone | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon stone=Location | | 3 | **dress** | participle | | | | a old coarse linen gown and cap | | miserably *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | the ground at Queen's feet | | | | | with robes of gold and silver and ribbons and laces and diamonds and pearls; all, strewn *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **stalk** | past · progressive | the turkeys | | | | | | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent over which=Location | | 6 | **fro** | infinitive | the turkeys *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **stand** | past | the King's ugly disagreeable son | | | | | opposite Queen | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent opposite she=Location | | 8 | **declare** *speech: other* | gerund | the King's ugly disagreeable son *not said here* | | | | | angrily *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **not** **marry** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | Queen | son | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 10 | **kill** | should · passive | | Queen | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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. - ← previous: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/113/) - ↑ back to [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/)