--- title: "Why," answered the little mouse, "I think it is what they call 'eff… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Why," answered the little mouse, "I think it is what they call 'effect;'" and thereupon she turned the staff round, and behold not a single flower was to be seen upon it! Who acts: little mouse, perfume, tails, effect. 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, perfume, tails, effect), 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:pg27200:179:59 # text = "Why," answered the little mouse, "I think it is what they call 'effect;'" and thereupon she turned the staff round, and behold not a single flower was to be seen upon it! 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 answered answer 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 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 parataxis _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 thereupon thereupon ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 round round ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 32 behold behold INTJ UH _ 36 discourse _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 ccomp _ _ 41 upon upon ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the little mouse | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | the little mouse *= mouse* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | perfume | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **call** *in a quote* | present | tails *= tail* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **turn** | past | effect | the staff | | | | round, thereupon *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent staff=Theme | | 6 | **see** | past · passive | | a single flower | | | | upon perfume | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/60/) - ↑ back to [What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/)