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title: Violets, the elf told me," continued the mouse, "are for the sight,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Violets, the elf told me," continued the mouse, "are for the sight, the smell, and the touch; so we have only now to produce the effect of hearing and tasting;" and then, as the little mouse beat time with her staff, there came sounds of music, not such music as was heard in the forest, at the elfin
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 61

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Violets, the elf told me," continued the mouse, "are for the sight, the smell, and the touch; so we have only now to produce the effect of hearing and tasting;" and then, as the little mouse beat time with her staff, there came sounds of music, not such music as was heard in the forest, at the elfin feast, but such as is often heard in the kitchen--the sounds of boiling and roasting.

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**Who acts:** Violets, we · **What happens:** tell, continue, be, have, produce, come · **To what, where:** me, mouse, effect, sounds, forest, kitchen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Violets, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:179:61
# text = Violets, the elf told me," continued the mouse, "are for the sight, the smell, and the touch; so we have only now to produce the effect of hearing and tasting;" and then, as the little mouse beat time with her staff, there came sounds of music, not such music as was heard in the forest, at the elfin feast, but such as is often heard in the kitchen--the sounds of boiling and roasting.
1	Violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	elf	elf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	produce	produce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	tasting	tasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
42	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	55	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
46	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
47	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
54	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	55	expl	_	_
55	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
56	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
60	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	62	advmod	_	_
61	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	appos	_	_
63	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
64	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	aux:pass	_	_
65	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	advcl	_	_
66	in	in	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
70	at	at	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
71	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
72	elfin	elfin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	73	amod	_	_
73	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	80	punct	_	_
75	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	80	cc	_	_
76	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	80	case	_	_
77	as	as	ADP	IN	_	76	fixed	_	_
78	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	80	aux:pass	_	_
79	often	often	ADV	RB	_	80	advmod	_	_
80	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
81	in	in	ADP	IN	_	83	case	_	_
82	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	83	det	_	_
83	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	80	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
84	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	86	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
85	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	86	det	_	_
86	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	83	appos	_	_
87	of	of	ADP	IN	_	88	case	_	_
88	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	86	nmod	_	_
89	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	90	cc	_	_
90	roasting	roasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	88	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
91	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Violets and the elf |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past |  | the mouse |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for the sight and the smell | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | we |  |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **produce** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | the effect of hearing and tasting |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result |
| 6 | **come** *in a quote* | past | Violets and the elf *not said here* | sounds of music |  | there | then; time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme |
| 7 | **hear** *in a quote* | past · passive | Violets and the elf *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
| 8 | **hear** *in a quote* | present · passive | Violets and the elf *not said here* |  |  | the kitchen |  | often *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
| 9 | **effect** |  |  | hearing and tasting |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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.

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