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title: At last one day when the basket was finished, the Queen was looking… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last one day when the basket was finished, the Queen was looking out of the window to see how long a cord she must make to lower it to the bottom of the tower, when she noticed a little old woman who was leaning upon her stick and looking up at her. Who acts: Queen, cord, little old woman. A sent
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 60

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At last one day when the basket was finished, the Queen was looking out of the window to see how long a cord she must make to lower it to the bottom of the tower, when she noticed a little old woman who was leaning upon her stick and looking up at her.

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**Who acts:** Queen, cord, little old woman · **What happens:** finish, look out, see, make, lower, notice · **To what, where:** basket, window, bottom, little old woman, stick · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Queen, cord, little old woman), 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:pg540:22:60
# text = At last one day when the basket was finished, the Queen was looking out of the window to see how long a cord she must make to lower it to the bottom of the tower, when she noticed a little old woman who was leaning upon her stick and looking up at her.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	lower	lower	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	acl:relcl	_	_
48	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	conj	_	_
53	up	up	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	_
54	at	at	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · passive |  | the basket |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look out** | past · progressive | the Queen | the window |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | must | a cord |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lower** | to-infinitive | a cord *not said here* | basket |  | the bottom of the tower |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to bottom=Destination |
| 6 | **notice** | past | Queen | a little old woman |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 7 | **lean** | past · progressive | a little old woman |  |  | Queen's stick |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon stick=Location |
| 8 | **look up** | gerund | a little old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Queen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |

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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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