--- title: The sun sank to rest and night came on, when a little mouse started… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The sun sank to rest and night came on, when a little mouse started out of the grass at Ferko’s feet, and said to him, ‘I’m delighted to see you, my kind benefactor; but why are you looking so sad? Who acts: sun, night, little mouse, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, night, little mouse, I), 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:pg640:14:90 # text = The sun sank to rest and night came on, when a little mouse started out of the grass at Ferko’s feet, and said to him, ‘I’m delighted to see you, my kind benefactor; but why are you looking so sad? 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sank sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 on on ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 15 mark _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 16 out out ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 Ferko Ferko PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ’s 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 33 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 benefactor benefactor NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 42 but but CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 43 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 46 advmod _ _ 44 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 47 so so ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sink** | past | the sun | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **rest** | to-infinitive | the sun *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come on** | past | night | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **start out** | past | a little mouse | the grass at Ferko's feet | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Eventuality | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | Ferko | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 6 | **be** | present | I | my kind benefactor | | | | delighted *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 8 | **look** | present · progressive | you | | | | | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/91/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/)