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title: And then she tucked up her little dress, that she might run faster,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And then she tucked up her little dress, that she might run faster, but the narcissus caught her by the leg as she was jumping over it; so she stopped and looked at the tall yellow flower, and said, "Perhaps you may know something." Who acts: grandmother, narcissus, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 123

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And then she tucked up her little dress, that she might run faster, but the narcissus caught her by the leg as she was jumping over it; so she stopped and looked at the tall yellow flower, and said, "Perhaps you may know something."

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**Who acts:** grandmother, narcissus, you · **What happens:** tuck up, run, catch, jump, stop, look · **To what, where:** little dress, grandmother, narcissus, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, narcissus, 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:pg27200:172:123
# text = And then she tucked up her little dress, that she might run faster, but the narcissus caught her by the leg as she was jumping over it; so she stopped and looked at the tall yellow flower, and said, "Perhaps you may know something."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	narcissus	narcissus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
47	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	ccomp	_	_
50	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck up** | past | grandmother | grandmother's little dress |  |  | then |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | might | grandmother |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | past | the narcissus | grandmother |  |  |  | by the leg | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **jump** | past · progressive | grandmother |  |  | narcissus |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory |
| 5 | **stop** | past | grandmother |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **look** | past | grandmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the tall yellow flower | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | grandmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **know** *in a quote* | may | you | something |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |

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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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