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title: _Then, if you are_ very _quiet, you will hear a teeny tiny voice say… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Then, if you are_ very _quiet, you will hear a teeny tiny voice say through the grating_ "Take down the Key." Who acts: you, _. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, John D. Batten, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, John D. Batten, sentence 6

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\_Then, if you are\_ very \_quiet, you will hear a teeny tiny voice say through the grating\_ "Take down the Key."

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**Who acts:** you, \_ · **What happens:** be, hear, say, take down · **To what, where:** \_ quiet, teeny tiny voice, grating, Key · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, John D. Batten. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, \_), 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:pg14241:3:6
# text = _Then, if you are_ very _quiet, you will hear a teeny tiny voice say through the grating_ "Take down the Key."
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	quiet	quiet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	grating	grating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | \_ quiet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | future | \_ | a teeny tiny voice |  |  | then |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  | the grating |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **take down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the Key |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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