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title: She uttered a terrible scream when she caught sight of me so near to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She uttered a terrible scream when she caught sight of me so near to her; like many women, she was very much afraid of mice. Who acts: dryad. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 42

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She uttered a terrible scream when she caught sight of me so near to her; like many women, she was very much afraid of mice.

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**Who acts:** dryad · **What happens:** utter, catch, be, sight · **To what, where:** terrible scream, sight, rest, me

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dryad), 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:pg27200:180:42
# text = She uttered a terrible scream when she caught sight of me so near to her; like many women, she was very much afraid of mice.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	scream	scream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	near	near	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | dryad | a terrible scream |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scream=Topic |
| 2 | **catch** | past | dryad | sight of me | rest |  |  | near *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | dryad |  |  |  |  | like many women; of mice; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | me |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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