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title: The Queen was immensely astonished when the Mouse began to speak, an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen was immensely astonished when the Mouse began to speak, and still more so when she saw its little sharp nose turn to a beautiful face, and its paws to hands and feet; then it suddenly grew tall, and the Queen recognised the Fairy who had come with the wicked King to visit her. Who acts: Qu
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 85

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The Queen was immensely astonished when the Mouse began to speak, and still more so when she saw its little sharp nose turn to a beautiful face, and its paws to hands and feet; then it suddenly grew tall, and the Queen recognised the Fairy who had come with the wicked King to visit her.

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**Who acts:** Queen, Mouse, kindness, Fairy · **What happens:** be, begin, speak, see, grow, recognise · **To what, where:** little sharp nose turn, Fairy · **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, Mouse, kindness, Fairy), 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:pg540:22:85
# text = The Queen was immensely astonished when the Mouse began to speak, and still more so when she saw its little sharp nose turn to a beautiful face, and its paws to hands and feet; then it suddenly grew tall, and the Queen recognised the Fairy who had come with the wicked King to visit her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	immensely	immensely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
42	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	49	acl:relcl	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
58	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	advcl	_	_
59	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  | astonished, immensely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the Mouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the Mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | past | Queen | kindness's little sharp nose turn |  |  |  | to a beautiful face | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** | past | kindness |  |  |  | then | suddenly, tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **recognise** | past | the Queen | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus |
| 7 | **come** | past · perfect | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | with the wicked King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **visit** | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* | fairy |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |

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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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