--- title: "When I first went out into the world," said the little mouse, "I fa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "When I first went out into the world," said the little mouse, "I fancied, as so many of my age do, that I already knew everything, but it was not so. Who acts: little mouse, many, mouse. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little mouse, many, mouse), 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:pg27200:179:1 # text = "When I first went out into the world," said the little mouse, "I fancied, as so many of my age do, that I already knew everything, but it was not so. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 advmod _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 6 out out ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 fancied fancy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 already already ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 33 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go out** *in a quote* | past | the little mouse *= mouse* | | | the world | | first, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little mouse | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fancy** *in a quote* | past | the little mouse *= mouse* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present | many | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **know** *in a quote* | past | the little mouse *= mouse* | everything | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | past | mouse | | | | | so *property* | 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. 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