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title: The next morning came the gaoler with the Queen’s allowance of three… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning came the gaoler with the Queen’s allowance of three peas, which he brought in upon a large dish to make them look smaller; but as soon as he set it down the little mouse came and ate up all three, so that when the Queen wanted her dinner there was nothing left for her. Who acts: nex
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 48

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The next morning came the gaoler with the Queen’s allowance of three peas, which he brought in upon a large dish to make them look smaller; but as soon as he set it down the little mouse came and ate up all three, so that when the Queen wanted her dinner there was nothing left for her.

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**Who acts:** next morning, gaoler, dishes, Queen, nothing · **What happens:** come, bring in, make, look, set down, eat up · **To what, where:** three peas, dishes, allowance, three, dinner

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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 (next morning, gaoler, dishes, Queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg540:22:48
# text = The next morning came the gaoler with the Queen’s allowance of three peas, which he brought in upon a large dish to make them look smaller; but as soon as he set it down the little mouse came and ate up all three, so that when the Queen wanted her dinner there was nothing left for her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	allowance	allowance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	down	down	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
41	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
44	up	up	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	det	_	_
46	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
48	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	53	mark	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	fixed	_	_
50	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	53	mark	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
54	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	57	expl	_	_
57	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	parataxis	_	_
58	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	57	nsubj	_	_
59	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	acl	_	_
60	for	for	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the next morning |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring in** | past | gaoler | three peas |  |  |  | upon a large dish | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Asset |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | gaoler *not said here* | dishes *= dish* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | dishes *= dish* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **set down** | past | gaoler | allowance |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme mouse=Destination |
| 6 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **eat up** | past |  | all three |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient |
| 8 | **want** | past | the Queen | Queen's dinner |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dinner=Theme |
| 9 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for Queen | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for she=Recipient |
| 11 | **allowance** |  | the Queen | three peas |  |  |  |  | nom allowance «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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.

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**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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