The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 182

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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 tripped	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mouse	amod
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tripped	nsubj
5	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 tripped	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 bedroom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bedroom	det
9	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tripped	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Princess	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bedroom	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 waited	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 waited	cc
15	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tripped	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 nightfall	case
17	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 waited	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 fallen	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 fallen	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fallen	punct
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 fallen	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Princess	det
23	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 fallen	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fallen	aux
25	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 waited	conj
26	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fallen	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 crept	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 crept	nsubj
29	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 waited	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 crept	compound:prt
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 bed	case
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 bed	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 bed	nmod:poss
34	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crept	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 gnawed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 gnawed	cc
37	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tripped	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 hole	det
39	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gnawed	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 pillow	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 pillow	det
42	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hole	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 dragged	punct
44	through	through	ADP	_	45 which	case
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 dragged	obl
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 dragged	nsubj
47	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 gnawed	conj
48	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 dragged	obj
49	by	by	ADP	_	53 feathers	case
50	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 feathers	nummod
51	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 feathers	amod
52	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 feathers	compound
53	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 dragged	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 threw	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 threw	cc
56	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tripped	conj
57	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 threw	obj
58	under	under	ADP	_	62 nose	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 Princess	det
60	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 nose	nmod:poss
61	’s	's	PART	_	60 Princess	case
62	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 threw	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tripped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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

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.

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