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title: And the tiny mouse tripped away into the bedroom of the Princess, an… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the tiny mouse tripped away into the bedroom of the Princess, and waited for nightfall; then, when the Princess had fallen asleep, it crept up on to her bed, and gnawed a hole in the pillow, through which it dragged one by one little down feathers, and threw them under the Princess’s nose. Who a
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 182

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And the tiny mouse tripped away into the bedroom of the Princess, and waited for nightfall; then, when the Princess had fallen asleep, it crept up on to her bed, and gnawed a hole in the pillow, through which it dragged one by one little down feathers, and threw them under the Princess’s nose.

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**Who acts:** tiny mouse, Princess, ring · **What happens:** trip away, wait, fall, creep up, gnaw, drag · **To what, where:** bedroom, bed, hole, pillow, one, mice

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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, Princess, ring), 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:pg640:33:182
# text = And the tiny mouse tripped away into the bedroom of the Princess, and waited for nightfall; then, when the Princess had fallen asleep, it crept up on to her bed, and gnawed a hole in the pillow, through which it dragged one by one little down feathers, and threw them under the Princess’s nose.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tripped	trip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
26	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	through	through	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	obl	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
48	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	obj	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
50	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	nummod	_	_
51	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
52	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
57	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	under	under	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	’s	's	PART	POS	_	60	case	_	_
62	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trip away** | past | the tiny mouse |  |  | the bedroom of the Princess |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bedroom=Destination |
| 2 | **wait** | past | the tiny mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for nightfall | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past · perfect | the Princess |  |  |  | then | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **creep up** | past | ring |  |  | Princess's bed |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bed=Trajectory |
| 5 | **gnaw** | past | the tiny mouse *not said here* | a hole |  | the pillow |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
| 6 | **drag** | past | ring | one |  |  |  | by one little down feathers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 7 | **throw** | past | the tiny mouse *not said here* | mice *= mouse* |  | the Princess's nose |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme under nose=Destination |

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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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