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title: Here he noticed a little mouse creeping wearily along on its hind pa… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here he noticed a little mouse creeping wearily along on its hind paws, for its front paws had both been broken in a trap. Who acts: Ferko, little mouse, front paws. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 44

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Here he noticed a little mouse creeping wearily along on its hind paws, for its front paws had both been broken in a trap.

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**Who acts:** Ferko, little mouse, front paws · **What happens:** notice, creep, have, break · **To what, where:** little mouse, hind paws, both, trap

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko, little mouse, front paws), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg640:14:44
# text = Here he noticed a little mouse creeping wearily along on its hind paws, for its front paws had both been broken in a trap.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	wearily	wearily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	along	along	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | Ferko | a little mouse |  | here |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus |
| 2 | **creep** | gerund | a little mouse *not said here* |  |  | mouse's hind paws |  | along, wearily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on paw=Trajectory |
| 3 | **have** | past | mouse's front paws |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** | participle · passive |  | both |  | a trap |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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