--- title: And as the little mouse waved her baton still more wildly, the pots… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And as the little mouse waved her baton still more wildly, the pots foamed and threw up bubbles, and boiled over; while again the wind roared and whistled through the chimney, and at last there was such a terrible hubbub, that the little mouse let her stick fall. 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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, pots, wind, hubbub), 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:pg27200:179:65 # text = And as the little mouse waved her baton still more wildly, the pots foamed and threw up bubbles, and boiled over; while again the wind roared and whistled through the chimney, and at last there was such a terrible hubbub, that the little mouse let her stick fall. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 as as 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 waved wave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 baton baton NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 advmod _ _ 11 wildly wildly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 pots pot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 foamed foam VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 bubbles bubble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 boiled boil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 23 over over ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 again again ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 roared roar VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 whistled whistle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 32 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 39 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 40 expl _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 41 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 44 det:predet _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 hubbub hubbub NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 46 that that SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 50 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 51 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ _ 52 stick stick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 50 xcomp _ _ 53 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wave** | past | the little mouse | smell's baton | | | | wildly *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baton=Patient | | 2 | **foam** | past | the pots | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **throw up** | past | the pots *not said here* | bubbles | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bubble=Theme | | 4 | **boil over** | participle | the little mouse *not said here* | | | | | over *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **roar** | past | the wind | | | | again | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **whistle** | past | the wind *not said here* | | | the chimney | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through chimney=Location | | 7 | **is** | past | the little mouse *not said here* | | | | | last *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **let** | past | the little mouse | hubbub | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **stick** | infinitive | hubbub *not said here* | fall | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fall=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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/66/) - ↑ back to [What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/)