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title: In a moment the mouse was sound and whole, and after thanking the ki… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a moment the mouse was sound and whole, and after thanking the kind physician it scampered away over the ploughed furrows. Who acts: mouse. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 46

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In a moment the mouse was sound and whole, and after thanking the kind physician it scampered away over the ploughed furrows.

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**Who acts:** mouse · **What happens:** be, thank, scamper away, plough · **To what, where:** sound, kind physician, ploughed furrows

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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 (mouse), 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:pg640:14:46
# text = In a moment the mouse was sound and whole, and after thanking the kind physician it scampered away over the ploughed furrows.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	scampered	scamper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	ploughed	plough	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	furrows	furrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the mouse | sound |  |  | moment |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | mouse *not said here* | the kind physician |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent physician=Theme |
| 4 | **scamper away** | past | mouse |  |  | the ploughed furrows |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over furrow=Trajectory |
| 5 | **plough** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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