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title: As to the Queen, she was so disappointed that, in spite of finding a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As to the Queen, she was so disappointed that, in spite of finding a better dinner than usual, and seeing the little mouse dancing in its merriest mood, she could do nothing but cry. Who acts: Queen, spite. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, with its dependency
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 77

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As to the Queen, she was so disappointed that, in spite of finding a better dinner than usual, and seeing the little mouse dancing in its merriest mood, she could do nothing but cry.

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**Who acts:** Queen, spite · **What happens:** be, find, see, do · **To what, where:** better dinner, little mouse dancing, merriest mood, nothing

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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, spite), 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:pg540:22:77
# text = As to the Queen, she was so disappointed that, in spite of finding a better dinner than usual, and seeing the little mouse dancing in its merriest mood, she could do nothing but cry.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
23	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	csubj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	merriest	merry	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	35	obj	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  | as the Queen; disappointed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | gerund | spite *not said here* | a better dinner |  |  |  | than usual | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | gerund |  | the little mouse dancing |  | spite's merriest mood |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dancing=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | could | spite | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |

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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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