--- title: Peep!" they said sweeping the ground with their tails, and blinking… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Peep!" they said sweeping the ground with their tails, and blinking with one eye at the roses, they had not looked at them long before they were convinced that they were their old neighbours. Who acts: roses. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/124/201/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Neighbouring Families](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/124/) / 201 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 201 Peep!" they said sweeping the ground with their tails, and blinking with one eye at the roses, they had not looked at them long before they were convinced that they were their old neighbours. **Who acts:** roses · **What happens:** say, sweep, blink, not look, be · **To what, where:** ground, roses, old neighbours · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses), 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:pg27200:124:201 # text = Peep!" they said sweeping the ground with their tails, and blinking with one eye at the roses, they had not looked at them long before they were convinced that they were their old neighbours. 1 Peep peep NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 sweeping sweep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 blinking blink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 conj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 roses rose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 looked look VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 29 before before SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 convinced convinced ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 advcl _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | roses *= rose* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **sweep** *in a quote* | gerund | roses *= rose* *not said here* | the ground | | | | with roses's tails | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Trajectory | | 3 | **blink** *in a quote* | gerund | roses *= rose* *not said here* | | | the roses | | with one eye | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at rose=Location | | 4 | **not** **look** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive | | roses *= rose* | | | | at eye; long *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | roses *= rose* | | | | | convinced *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | roses *= rose* | roses's old neighbours | | | | | tree rules | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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 200](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/124/200/) - next →: [sentence 202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/124/202/) - ↑ back to [The Neighbouring Families](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/124/)