--- title: No sooner did the little creature feel itself on the ground than it… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: No sooner did the little creature feel itself on the ground than it lay back its ears and flew through the wood like an arrow from a bow, closely pursued by the wild beasts, and the Prince was left alone. Who acts: little creature, hare. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/85/) [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 Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/) / 85 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 85 No sooner did the little creature feel itself on the ground than it lay back its ears and flew through the wood like an arrow from a bow, closely pursued by the wild beasts, and the Prince was left alone. **Who acts:** little creature, hare · **What happens:** feel, lie back, fly, pursue, leave · **To what, where:** hare, ground, ears, wood, bow, Prince This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (little creature, hare), 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:pg640:30:85 # text = No sooner did the little creature feel itself on the ground than it lay back its ears and flew through the wood like an arrow from a bow, closely pursued by the wild beasts, and the Prince was left alone. 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 than than SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 15 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 through through ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 closely closely ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 pursued pursue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 42 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past · do-support | the little creature | hare | | the ground | | soon *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent itself=Theme on ground=Location | | 2 | **lie back** | past | hare | hare's ears | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ear=Theme | | 3 | **fly** | past | hare *not said here* | | | the wood | | like a arrow; from a bow | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Location | | 4 | **pursue** | participle | | a bow *not said here* | | | | by the wild beasts; closely *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by beast=Trajectory | | 5 | **leave** | past · passive | | the Prince | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/86/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/)