--- title: But as soon as she entered the room she saw a terrible army of rats,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But as soon as she entered the room she saw a terrible army of rats, who were guarding the straw bed; and when she attempted to approach it they sprang at her, biting and scratching furiously. Who acts: Felicia, rats. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/80/) [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/) / [Felicia and the Pot of Pinks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/) / 80 # The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 80 But as soon as she entered the room she saw a terrible army of rats, who were guarding the straw bed; and when she attempted to approach it they sprang at her, biting and scratching furiously. **Who acts:** Felicia, rats · **What happens:** enter, see, guard, attempt, approach, spring · **To what, where:** room, terrible army, straw bed This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Felicia, rats), 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:pg503:22:80 # text = But as soon as she entered the room she saw a terrible army of rats, who were guarding the straw bed; and when she attempted to approach it they sprang at her, biting and scratching furiously. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 as as ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 guarding guard VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 attempted attempt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 approach approach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 biting bite VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 scratching scratch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 conj _ _ 39 furiously furiously ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | past | Felicia | the room | | | | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | | 2 | **see** | past | Felicia | a terrible army of rats | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer army=Stimulus | | 3 | **guard** | past · progressive | rats | the straw bed | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Beneficiary | | 4 | **attempt** | past | Felicia | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **approach** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Felicia *not said here* | room | | | | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **spring** | past | rats *= rat* | | | | | at Felicia | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Trajectory | | 7 | **bite** | gerund | rats *= rat* *not said here* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **scratch** | gerund | rats *= rat* *not said here* | | | | | furiously *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/81/) - ↑ back to [Felicia and the Pot of Pinks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/)