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title: On the right stood all the little lady-mice, whispering and giggling… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On the right stood all the little lady-mice, whispering and giggling, as if they were making game of each other. Who acts: walls. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 112

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On the right stood all the little lady-mice, whispering and giggling, as if they were making game of each other.

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**Who acts:** walls · **What happens:** stand, whisper, giggle, make · **To what, where:** little lady mice, right, game

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls), 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:pg27200:134:112
# text = On the right stood all the little lady-mice, whispering and giggling, as if they were making game of each other.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	giggling	giggle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
21	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nmod	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | all little lady mice |  | the right |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme on right=Destination |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **giggle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | walls *= wall* | game of each |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product |

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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:** «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.

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