--- title: But before the little mouse explained what this something more was,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: But before the little mouse explained what this something more was, she stretched her staff out to the king, and as it touched him the most beautiful bunch of violets sprang forth and filled the place with perfume. Who acts: little mouse, something, breeze, staff. 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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, something, breeze, staff), 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:pg27200:179:56 # text = But before the little mouse explained what this something more was, she stretched her staff out to the king, and as it touched him the most beautiful bunch of violets sprang forth and filled the place with perfume. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 before before SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 explained explain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 ccomp _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ _ 10 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 out out ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 29 advmod _ _ 29 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 bunch bunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 violets violet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 sprang sprang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 34 forth forth ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 perfume perfume NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | the little mouse | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | something | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stretch out** | past | breeze | breeze's staff | | | | to the king *result*; out *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent staff=Patient to king=Result | | 4 | **touch** | past | staff | king | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | | 5 | **sprang** | present | the beautiful bunch of violets | | | | | forth *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **fill** | past | staff *not said here* | the place | | | | with perfume | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent place=Patient with perfume=Instrument | 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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/57/) - ↑ back to [What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/)