--- title: She then went to look into her mouse-trap, where she found six mice,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She then went to look into her mouse-trap, where she found six mice, all alive, and ordered Cinderella to lift up a little the trapdoor, when, giving each mouse, as it went out, a little tap with her wand, the mouse was that moment turned into a fine horse, which altogether made a very fine set of s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/11/33/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/11/) / 33 # The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 33 She then went to look into her mouse-trap, where she found six mice, all alive, and ordered Cinderella to lift up a little the trapdoor, when, giving each mouse, as it went out, a little tap with her wand, the mouse was that moment turned into a fine horse, which altogether made a very fine set of six horses of a beautiful mouse-colored dapple-gray. **Who acts:** Cinderella, pumpkin, moment, fine horse · **What happens:** go, look, find, order, lift up, give · **To what, where:** six mice, Cinderella, little trapdoor, mouse, little tap, fine set This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cinderella, pumpkin, moment, fine horse), 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:pg503:11:33 # text = She then went to look into her mouse-trap, where she found six mice, all alive, and ordered Cinderella to lift up a little the trapdoor, when, giving each mouse, as it went out, a little tap with her wand, the mouse was that moment turned into a fine horse, which altogether made a very fine set of six horses of a beautiful mouse-colored dapple-gray. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 15 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 23 Cinderella Cinderella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 trapdoor trapdoor NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 35 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 as as SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 41 out out ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 wand wand NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 appos _ _ 52 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 cop _ _ 53 that that SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 54 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ _ 55 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 51 acl:relcl _ _ 56 into into ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 57 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 58 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 61 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 63 nsubj _ _ 62 altogether altogether ADV RB _ 63 advmod _ _ 63 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 59 acl:relcl _ _ 64 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 65 very very ADV RB _ 66 advmod _ _ 66 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 amod _ _ 67 set set NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obj _ _ 68 of of ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 69 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 70 nummod _ _ 70 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 67 nmod _ _ 71 of of ADP IN _ 79 case _ _ 72 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 79 det _ _ 73 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 79 amod _ _ 74 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 76 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 75 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 74 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 76 colored color VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 79 amod _ _ 77 dapple dapple NOUN NN Number=Sing 79 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 78 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 77 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 79 gray gray NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 80 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Cinderella | | | | then | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | Cinderella *not said here* | | | | | into Cinderella's mouse trap | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into trap=Theme | | 3 | **find** | past | Cinderella | six mice | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic | | 4 | **order** | past | Cinderella *not said here* | | Cinderella | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cinderella=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **lift up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Cinderella *not said here* | the little trapdoor | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **give** | gerund | Cinderella *not said here* | each mouse | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 7 | **go out** | past | pumpkin | a little tap with Cinderella's wand | | | | | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | past | moment | the mouse *not said here* | | | | into a fine horse; turn *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **make** | past | a fine horse | a fine set of six horses of a beautiful colored dapple gray | | | | altogether *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset set=Product | | 10 | **color** | participle | | | | | | | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/11/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/11/34/) - ↑ back to [Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/11/)