--- title: All at once I saw the most charming little people marching towards me. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: All at once I saw the most charming little people marching towards me. Who acts: I, little people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/26/) [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/) / [What the First Little Mouse Saw and He…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/) / 26 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 26 All at once I saw the most charming little people marching towards me. **Who acts:** I, little people · **What happens:** see, charming, march · **To what, where:** little people This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (I, little people), 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:pg27200:179:26 # text = All at once I saw the most charming little people marching towards me. 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 advmod _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 5 obl _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 8 advmod _ _ 8 charming charming VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 marching march VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 towards towards ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **charming** | present | I *not said here* | little people | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **march** | gerund | little people *not said here* | | | | | towards me | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards i=Destination | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/27/) - ↑ back to [What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/)