--- title: "And when Phantaesus came the feather was plucked, and," said the li… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "And when Phantaesus came the feather was plucked, and," said the little mouse, "I seized and put it in water, and kept it there till it was quite soft. Who acts: Phantaesus, little mouse, opportunity. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (Phantaesus, little mouse, opportunity), 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:pg27200:180:53 # text = "And when Phantaesus came the feather was plucked, and," said the little mouse, "I seized and put it in water, and kept it there till it was quite soft. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 And and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 4 Phantaesus Phantaesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 plucked pluck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 32 till till SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 quite quite ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** *in a quote* | past | Phantaesus | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **pluck** *in a quote* | past · passive | | the feather | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little mouse | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **seize** *in a quote* | past | the little mouse *= mouse* | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **put** *in a quote* | past | the little mouse *= mouse* *not said here* | opportunity | | water | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in water=Destination | | 6 | **keep** *in a quote* | past | the little mouse *not said here* | opportunity | | there | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | past | opportunity | | | | | soft *property* | tree rules | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/180/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/180/54/) - ↑ back to [What the Second Mouse Had to Tell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/180/)