--- title: Then her ladies put the little Princess into her arms, and covered h… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then her ladies put the little Princess into her arms, and covered her up, head and all, in the bedclothes, and ran for their lives, and the poor Queen lay there shaking, and hoping she would not be found. Who acts: ladies, poor Queen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Go --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/24/) [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/) / 24 # The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 24 Then her ladies put the little Princess into her arms, and covered her up, head and all, in the bedclothes, and ran for their lives, and the poor Queen lay there shaking, and hoping she would not be found. **Who acts:** ladies, poor Queen · **What happens:** put, cover up, run, lie, shake, hope · **To what, where:** little Princess, arms, Queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (ladies, poor 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:pg540:22:24 # text = Then her ladies put the little Princess into her arms, and covered her up, head and all, in the bedclothes, and ran for their lives, and the poor Queen lay there shaking, and hoping she would not be found. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bedclothes bedclothes NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 36 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 37 shaking shake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 conj _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 42 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 43 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 44 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 aux:pass _ _ 45 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | Queen's ladies | | the little Princess | Queen's arms | then | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Goal | | 2 | **cover up** | past | Queen's ladies *not said here* | | Queen | | | head *obl* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination | | 3 | **run** | past | Queen's ladies *not said here* | | | | | for ladies's lives | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary | | 4 | **lie** | past | the poor Queen | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **shake** | gerund | the poor Queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **hope** | gerund | the poor Queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **not** **find** | would · passive | | Queen | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/25/) - ↑ back to [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/)