--- title: "It was the height of summer, which the mice told me was the reason… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "It was the height of summer, which the mice told me was the reason that the forest smelt so strong, and that the herbs were so fragrant, and the lakes with the white swimming swans so dark, and yet so clear. Who acts: thing, mice, herbs, lakes. 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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 (thing, mice, herbs, lakes), 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:pg27200:179:18 # text = "It was the height of summer, which the mice told me was the reason that the forest smelt so strong, and that the herbs were so fragrant, and the lakes with the white swimming swans so dark, and yet so clear. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 obj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 csubj _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 smelt smelt NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 herbs herb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 fragrant fragrant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 swimming swimming NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 39 swans swan VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 yet yet ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 45 so so ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | thing | the height | | | summer | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the mice | the reason | forests *= forest* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient which=Topic | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | | the reason | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the herbs | | | | | fragrant *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **swan** *in a quote* | present | the lakes with the white swimming | | | | | dark *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/19/) - ↑ back to [What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/)