--- title: Then he saw that some living creature moved inside and ran along the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he saw that some living creature moved inside and ran along the floor towards him and said something, which made him so frightened that he sprang back from the door and shut it again. Who acts: Prince, living creature. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30), with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/31/) [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/) / [Prince Ring (30)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/) / 31 # The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 31 Then he saw that some living creature moved inside and ran along the floor towards him and said something, which made him so frightened that he sprang back from the door and shut it again. **Who acts:** Prince, living creature · **What happens:** see, live, move, run, say, make · **To what, where:** floor, something, Prince, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, living creature), 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:pg640:42:31 # text = Then he saw that some living creature moved inside and ran along the floor towards him and said something, which made him so frightened that he sprang back from the door and shut it again. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 6 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 amod _ _ 7 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 inside inside ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 along along ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 towards towards ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 frightened frighten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 29 back back ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 shut shut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 again again ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | Prince | | | | then | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **move** | past | some living creature | | | | | inside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **run** | past | Prince *not said here* | | | the floor | | towards Prince | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along floor=Trajectory | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Prince *not said here* | something | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 6 | **make** | past | | Prince | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | | 7 | **frighten** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **spring back** | past | Prince | | | the door | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from door=Trajectory | | 9 | **shut** | past | Prince *not said here* | door | | | again | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/32/) - ↑ back to [Prince Ring (30)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/)