--- title: The day passed slowly, and with the evening came the little mouse an… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The day passed slowly, and with the evening came the little mouse and said, ‘Now there is not a single stalk of corn left in any field; they are all collected in one big heap on the hill out there.’ Who acts: day, little mouse. 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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 (day, little mouse), 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:pg640:15:7 # text = The day passed slowly, and with the evening came the little mouse and said, ‘Now there is not a single stalk of corn left in any field; they are all collected in one big heap on the hill out there.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 10 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 19 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 20 expl _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 stalk stalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 34 all all ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 collected collect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 38 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 heap heap NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 43 out out ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | past | the day | | | | | slowly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | the little mouse | | | | evening | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little mouse *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | | a single stalk | | | | of corn | tree rules | | 5 | **leave** | participle | | corn *not said here* | | | | in any field *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in field=Result | | 6 | **collect** | present · passive | | fields *= field* | | one big heap; there | | on the hill; all *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/8/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/)