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title: The little black dog, as light as a soap-bubble, jumps up on his hin… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The little black dog, as light as a soap-bubble, jumps up on his hind legs to try to get into the swing. Who acts: little black dog. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 96

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The little black dog, as light as a soap-bubble, jumps up on his hind legs to try to get into the swing.

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**Who acts:** little black dog · **What happens:** jump up, try, get · **To what, where:** hind legs, swing

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little black dog), 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:pg1597:12:96
# text = The little black dog, as light as a soap-bubble, jumps up on his hind legs to try to get into the swing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	bubble	bubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	jumps	jump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump up** | present | the little black dog and light as a soap bubble |  |  | brother's hind legs |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |
| 2 | **try** | to-infinitive | the little black dog and light as a soap bubble *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the little black dog and light as a soap bubble *not said here* |  |  | the swing |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into swing=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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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