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title: When she spoke it sounded just like the noise of frogs, or as if one… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When she spoke it sounded just like the noise of frogs, or as if one walked with great boots over a moor; always the same tone, so uniform and so tiring that little Tuk fell into a good sound sleep, which, by the bye, could not do him any harm. Who acts: grass, it, one, little Tuk. A sentence of «An
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 73

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When she spoke it sounded just like the noise of frogs, or as if one walked with great boots over a moor; always the same tone, so uniform and so tiring that little Tuk fell into a good sound sleep, which, by the bye, could not do him any harm.

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**Who acts:** grass, it, one, little Tuk, frogs · **What happens:** speak, sound, walk, fall, not do, noise · **To what, where:** noise, moor, good sound sleep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grass, it, one, little Tuk), 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:pg1597:25:73
# text = When she spoke it sounded just like the noise of frogs, or as if one walked with great boots over a moor; always the same tone, so uniform and so tiring that little Tuk fell into a good sound sleep, which, by the bye, could not do him any harm.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	uniform	uniform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	tiring	tiring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
47	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	bye	bye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
51	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
53	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	56	det	_	_
56	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | grass |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sound** | past | it | the noise of frogs |  |  |  | the same tone and uniform *obl* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location noise=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | one |  |  | a moor |  | with great boots | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over moor=Trajectory |
| 4 | **fall** | past | little Tuk |  |  |  |  | into a good sound sleep *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result |
| 5 | **not** **do** | could | little Tuk *not said here* | a good sound sleep |  |  |  | by the bye | tree rules |
| 6 | **noise** |  | frogs |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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