--- title: The Fairy then changed herself back into the form of a mouse, and th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Fairy then changed herself back into the form of a mouse, and this delayed her a few seconds, after which she ran nimbly down the straw rope, but only to find when she got to the bottom that the baby had disappeared. Who acts: Fairy, this. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The L --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/96/) [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/) / 96 # The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 96 The Fairy then changed herself back into the form of a mouse, and this delayed her a few seconds, after which she ran nimbly down the straw rope, but only to find when she got to the bottom that the baby had disappeared. **Who acts:** Fairy, this · **What happens:** change back, delay, run, find, get, disappear · **To what, where:** fairy, form, straw rope, baby, mouse · **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 (Fairy, this), 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:pg540:22:96 # text = The Fairy then changed herself back into the form of a mouse, and this delayed her a few seconds, after which she ran nimbly down the straw rope, but only to find when she got to the bottom that the baby had disappeared. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 nsubj _ _ 16 delayed delay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 obl _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 26 nimbly nimbly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 down down ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 only only ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 36 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 that that SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj:pass _ _ 45 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 disappeared disappear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change back** | past | the Fairy | fairy | | | then | into the form of a mouse *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into form=Result | | 2 | **delay** | past | this | fairy | | | second | | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent she=Source | | 3 | **run** | past | fairy | | | the straw rope | | nimbly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down rope=Trajectory | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | the Fairy *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **get** | past | fairy | | | | | to the bottom *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to bottom=Result | | 6 | **disappear** | past · perfect · passive | | the baby | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **form** | | | a mouse | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/97/) - ↑ back to [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/)