--- title: Then there was a scurrying hither and thither, and a hunting everywh… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then there was a scurrying hither and thither, and a hunting everywhere: they looked into every place, from the wardrobes to the stoves, and the Queen herself ran about from the garret to the cellar, but the handkerchief was nowhere to be found. Who acts: preparations, Queen. A sentence of «The Red --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/25/) [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 Princess Mayblossom, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/) / 25 # The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 25 Then there was a scurrying hither and thither, and a hunting everywhere: they looked into every place, from the wardrobes to the stoves, and the Queen herself ran about from the garret to the cellar, but the handkerchief was nowhere to be found. **Who acts:** preparations, Queen · **What happens:** scurry, be, run about, find · **To what, where:** place, garret, handkerchief This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (preparations, 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:pg540:4:25 # text = Then there was a scurrying hither and thither, and a hunting everywhere: they looked into every place, from the wardrobes to the stoves, and the Queen herself ran about from the garret to the cellar, but the handkerchief was nowhere to be found. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 5 scurrying scurry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 6 hither hither ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 thither thither ADV RB _ 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 13 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 wardrobes wardrobe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 parataxis _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 stoves stove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 32 nsubj _ _ 32 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 33 about about ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 garret garret NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 cellar cellar NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 handkerchief handkerchief NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj:pass _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux:pass _ _ 45 nowhere nowhere ADV RB PronType=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 47 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 48 aux:pass _ _ 48 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scurry** | gerund | | | | | | hither *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | preparations *= preparation* | | | every place | | look *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **run about** | past | the Queen | | | the garret to the cellar | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from garret=Trajectory | | 4 | **find** | past · passive | | the handkerchief | | | | nowhere *property* | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/26/) - ↑ back to [The Princess Mayblossom, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/)