--- title: But when he was quite high up, the Fairy, who had made herself invis… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But when he was quite high up, the Fairy, who had made herself invisible and followed them, gave him a sudden push, which made him lose his footing and fall to the ground with a crash and break four of his teeth, and while he was trying to mend them the fairy carried the Queen off in her flying char --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/108/) [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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/) / 108 # The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 108 But when he was quite high up, the Fairy, who had made herself invisible and followed them, gave him a sudden push, which made him lose his footing and fall to the ground with a crash and break four of his teeth, and while he was trying to mend them the fairy carried the Queen off in her flying chariot to a beautiful castle, where she was so kind to her that but for the loss of Delicia the Queen would have been perfectly happy. **Who acts:** enemy, Fairy, sudden push, Queen · **What happens:** be, make, follow, give, lose, break · **To what, where:** fairy, words, sudden push, enemy, footing, four 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 (enemy, Fairy, sudden push, Queen), 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:pg540:22:108 # text = But when he was quite high up, the Fairy, who had made herself invisible and followed them, gave him a sudden push, which made him lose his footing and fall to the ground with a crash and break four of his teeth, and while he was trying to mend them the fairy carried the Queen off in her flying chariot to a beautiful castle, where she was so kind to her that but for the loss of Delicia the Queen would have been perfectly happy. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 quite quite ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 acl _ _ 15 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 invisible invisible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 push push NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 footing footing NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 43 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 obj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 49 while while SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 50 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 51 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 52 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 53 to to PART TO _ 54 mark _ _ 54 mend mend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 advcl _ _ 55 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 obj _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nsubj _ _ 58 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 parataxis _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 obj _ _ 61 off off ADP RP _ 58 compound:prt _ _ 62 in in ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 63 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 69 nmod:poss _ _ 64 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 69 csubj _ _ 65 chariot chariot NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obj _ _ 66 to to ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 67 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 68 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 amod _ _ 69 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 70 , , PUNCT , _ 75 punct _ _ 71 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 75 advmod _ _ 72 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 75 nsubj _ _ 73 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 75 cop _ _ 74 so so ADV RB _ 75 advmod _ _ 75 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 parataxis _ _ 76 to to ADP IN _ 77 case _ _ 77 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 75 obl _ _ 78 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 75 nsubj _ _ 79 but but CCONJ CC _ 91 cc _ _ 80 for for ADP IN _ 82 case _ _ 81 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 82 det _ _ 82 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 91 obl _ _ 83 of of ADP IN _ 84 case _ _ 84 Delicia Delicia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 82 nmod _ _ 85 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 86 det _ _ 86 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 84 appos _ _ 87 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 91 aux _ _ 88 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 91 aux _ _ 89 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 91 cop _ _ 90 perfectly perfectly ADV RB _ 91 advmod _ _ 91 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 75 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 92 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | enemy | | | | | the Fairy *obl*; high *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | past · perfect | the Fairy | fairy | | | | invisible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Product | | 3 | **follow** | past | the Fairy *not said here* | words *= word* | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **give** | past | enemy *not said here* | a sudden push | enemy | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient push=Theme | | 5 | **make** | past | a sudden push | enemy | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **lose** | infinitive | enemy *not said here* | enemy's footing and fall | | | | to the ground; with a crash | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footing=Eventuality | | 7 | **break** | present | a sudden push *not said here* | four of enemy's teeth | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer four=Patient | | 8 | **try** | past · progressive | enemy | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **mend** | to-infinitive | the fairy *not said here* | words *= word* | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **carry off** | past | the fairy | the Queen | | Queen's beautiful castle | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent queen=Value in castle=Location | | 11 | **fly** | gerund | | chariot | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chariot=Theme | | 12 | **is** | past | Queen | | fairy | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 13 | **is** | would · perfect | Queen *not said here* | | | | | for the loss of Delicia; happy, perfectly *property* | tree rules | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/109/) - ↑ back to [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/)