--- title: The blind mouse was speedily deserted by her two sisters, who went o… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The blind mouse was speedily deserted by her two sisters, who went off to hunt flies, but as she wandered sadly along the shore she found a dead fish, and was eating it, when she felt something very hard. Who acts: two sisters, sea. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/216/) [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/) / [The Bronze Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/) / 216 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 216 The blind mouse was speedily deserted by her two sisters, who went off to hunt flies, but as she wandered sadly along the shore she found a dead fish, and was eating it, when she felt something very hard. **Who acts:** two sisters, sea · **What happens:** desert, go off, hunt, wander, find, eat · **To what, where:** blind mouse, flies, shore, dead fish, something This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two sisters, sea), 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:pg503:2:216 # text = The blind mouse was speedily deserted by her two sisters, who went off to hunt flies, but as she wandered sadly along the shore she found a dead fish, and was eating it, when she felt something very hard. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 5 speedily speedily ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 deserted desert VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 sadly sadly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 along along ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ 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 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 41 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 40 obj _ _ 42 very very ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **desert** | past · passive | sea's two sisters | the blind mouse | | | | speedily *property* | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme subject=Source | | 2 | **go off** | past | sea's two sisters | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | sea's two sisters *not said here* | flies | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme | | 4 | **wander** | past | sea | | | the shore | | sadly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along shore=Trajectory | | 5 | **find** | past | sea | a dead fish | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic | | 6 | **eat** | past · progressive | sea *not said here* | shore | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 7 | **feel** | past | sea | something | | | | hard *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | 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 215](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/215/) - next →: [sentence 217](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/217/) - ↑ back to [The Bronze Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/)