--- title: Instantly a tiny mouse stepped forward and said: ‘I often creep abou… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Instantly a tiny mouse stepped forward and said: ‘I often creep about the Princess’s bedroom at night, and I have noticed that she has a ring which she treasures as the apple of her eye. Who acts: tiny mouse, I, Princess, ring. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/179/) [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 Magic Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/) / 179 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 179 Instantly a tiny mouse stepped forward and said: ‘I often creep about the Princess’s bedroom at night, and I have noticed that she has a ring which she treasures as the apple of her eye. **Who acts:** tiny mouse, I, Princess, ring · **What happens:** step forward, say, creep, notice, have, treasure · **To what, where:** ring · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiny mouse, I, Princess, ring), 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:pg640:33:179 # text = Instantly a tiny mouse stepped forward and said: ‘I often creep about the Princess’s bedroom at night, and I have noticed that she has a ring which she treasures as the apple of her eye. 1 Instantly instantly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 forward forward ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 often often ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 creep creep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 14 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’s 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 bedroom bedroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 noticed notice VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 treasures treasure VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 as as ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **step forward** | past | a tiny mouse | | | | | forward, instantly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a tiny mouse *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **creep** | present | I | | | | night | about the Princess's bedroom; often *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about bedroom=Trajectory | | 4 | **notice** | present · perfect | I | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **have** | present | Princess | a ring | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient | | 6 | **treasure** | present | a ring | | | | | as the apple of Princess's eye | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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 178](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/178/) - next →: [sentence 180](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/180/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/)